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.
Looks like the book was a present to somebody's dad at Christmas. Says "To our Dad, Christmas 1919."
You guys are making me very covetous, lol - I promised myself to stop that.
I don’t think it does. But it is probably best to keep it out of direct sunlight, just in case.
Not exactly classic literature, but I have a 1909 2nd Edition of Machinery’s Handbook I rescued from a dumpster. It was in amongst a bunch of old law books left over from a lawyer’s estate sale. No idea why he had it.
An old Latin medical book dated 1623.
A meteorite.
I have a smaller collection than I would like to have, but maybe it will grow someday. I do have some gems, though.
My name.
I once dropped a piece and moved every heavy furniture until I found it.
Awesome!
LOL..thank you
“Lord Tennyson’s Poems,” an illustrated first edition bound in leather, published 1885.
My grandmother gave me a Trilobite fossil from the Cambrian Age. It's supposedly 585,000,000 years old. She also gave me a fossil Platystrophia, a dual shelled creature from about a hundred million years earlier than that. She found them in Southern Indiana around the turn of the twentieth Century. They are supposedly older than the Geodes and petrified wood she also gave me.
"The [Barringer] crater was created about 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when the local climate on the Colorado Plateau was much cooler and damper.[9][10]
The area was an open grassland dotted with woodlands inhabited by woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths.[11][12]"
Petrified shark tooth - age? Who knows.......
More recent late 1860’s smooth-bore percussion-cap long gun - barrel about 54” long.......some think it was homemade with a store-bought barrel and receiver......sits below my ginourmous mantle on huge stone fireplace in our log home......
Cool book nevertheless.
More like 6,000. Dates back to the
seed promised to the fallen Adam
and his wife. The promise renewed
to the Patriarchs. Look up a the
stars A______. So shalt thy seed be.
I actually prefer Roman coins (I have a few Bronze denarii), they have busts of the Emperors on them! My Greek coin has Athena standing, holding a spear and shield.
So your ancestor took a gun from a Crook.
Word of God.
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