Posted on 02/15/2016 6:24:28 PM PST by jy8z
I saw this question posed by a fellow FReeper in answer to another Freeper today. I thought it would make for an interesting topic. I do not remember who it was so I can't attribute it to them.
I just remembered I have a ring of brass jailer’s type keys I bought off Ebay supposedly dated around early 1900s.
There were bought as a prop and cheap too.
A shark tooth fossil I got in Florida this year. Says its approximately 45 million years old. I also have a 1915 Sonora record player.
That would be me ;-)I’m almost older than dirt!!
The wife and I found about 200 issues of “The American Druggist’s Circular and Chemical Gazette” in a drawer while cleaning out grandma’s house after her death. They date from 1860 to 1880.
Ads for prosthetic limbs, leaches, and all sorts of concoctions of the day. If anybody knows any breakthrough drugs during that time give me a month and a year and I’ll see if I can find an announcement. Could have a valuable issue in there somewhere.
This should be a neat thread.
I have a first edition of Little House on the Prairie. My son has a knife my aunts husbands grandfather carried in the Spanish American War. I think that’s about it.
A very small book called,
Short Prayers.
Printed in Bristol, January 1842.
I have a 4.5 billion year old rock on my desk.
That sounds so lovely.
I have a pocket Bible, leather-bound, from 1846. It was gifted to the original owner from his teacher. The recipient was Wellington Whipple, grandson of William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence. I am related to him on my grandmother’s side.
The inscription reads, “A parting gift from one who hopes he will govern his life by the divine wisdom it contains. March, 1846”
It’s been passed own through the generations, and my oldest son will get it at the appropriate time.
You collect books? One of my passions.
My Mamiya RB 67 medium format camera. Purchased it in 1975.
Besides some rocks, I also have some family letters from the Civil War. The is one happy one asking for my great...grandmother’s hand in marriage (yes, from a human male). The others are sad talking about who died and how their homes were ransacked by the d@mned Yankees.
An 1818 U.S. one cent piece.
Cool. Where do you guys find these or do you collect old coins?
Well played, sir.
or maybe a jade pig carving
does jade fade?
A double-barrel shotgun from the 1870s, and a Bible from the same period.
I am lucky to have 3 pieces of furniture from the late 1700’s. I have never seen anything like them before or since. I almost passed up on one of them. My wife really wanted it. After a restorer used his “magic dust” to clean the wood and expose the beautiful inlay; I was glad my wife pushed for it.
That is certainly true of many if not most individual iron atoms, and gold, etc, but I don't think for any of the iron meteorites. Interesting idea though.
I have a:
48 star US Flag
1919 Wheat Leaf penny
School book on US Presidents (stops at Taft)
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