Posted on 02/15/2016 6:24:28 PM PST by jy8z
Grandpa Johnson’s 1895 Belgian made side by side twin trigger twin hammer 12 gauge “stew pot gun”.
About $5 at the local hardware/blacksmith.
An 1844 novel by Benjamin Disraeli called “Coningsby”.
“My wife”
Beat me to it.
Japanese naval-mountings katana of unknown age, pre WWII at least, likely much older.
Assorted books from the 1800s.
At some point it’s not so much as you owning it, as you being its caretaker for now.
Lol!
An uncirculared 1854 2 1/2 dollar Liberty gold coin my Great Great Grandfather brought back home in the midwest from Sacramento that year. Put it in a bezel on a necklace and my wife wears it. It will go to our daughter.
Several meteorites that are millions of years old.
A hard bound book entitled “A Fools Errand (written by one of the fools)” first edition, published in 1867.
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Well, a number of arrowheads found by my dad and I from our farm (dates unknown) and our cannonball rope bed (which was from my family home) is inscribed “1843”.
Salvation... it’s about 2,000 years old now.
Probably a coin or a stamp. Nothing really valuable, but cool none the less.
Or maybe a book. I used to own an 18ll copy of The Federalist. I sold it. I have a some other early books. So...it is probably a book.
1863 Tower Enfield musket.
I own a Whitney Dragoon cap and ball pistol circa 1856. Passed down in my family since the war between the states. My Dad’s relative rode with McNeill’s raiders and was in the raid that captured General Crook. Reportedly my Dad’s relative liberated General Crook’s sidearm the Whitney pistol and it has been in our family ever since. Sadly I have not been able to trace the serial number to any records to absolutely tie the gun to Crook.
A 1904 Emerson upright used piano that my grandparents bought my mother when she was only 4 years old in 1934....
I have a penny minted under King Edward I, “Longshanks” of “Braveheart” movie fame. From about AD 1300.
I’ve got a few old globes that Al Gore great grand parents owned that have the Antarctica as an Ocean, they showed them to Al Gore and told them they were from the future. That is a hint of what I owned and a joke built into it.
Aww, I like your answer.
I have the whistle and pop off valves from an 1890’s Case steam engine.
LOL!
Uncirculated too.
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