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.
I have a 4.5 billion year old rock on my desk.
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.
My Mamiya RB 67 medium format camera. Purchased it in 1975.
An 1818 U.S. one cent piece.
A double-barrel shotgun from the 1870s, and a Bible from the same period.
I have a:
48 star US Flag
1919 Wheat Leaf penny
School book on US Presidents (stops at Taft)
Looks like the book was a present to somebody's dad at Christmas. Says "To our Dad, Christmas 1919."
An old Latin medical book dated 1623.
A meteorite.
My name.
I once dropped a piece and moved every heavy furniture until I found it.
“Lord Tennyson’s Poems,” an illustrated first edition bound in leather, published 1885.
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......
Word of God.
1897 Columbia Tandem Bicycle. It was made with 5% nickel alloy steel tubes. This was the finest and thinnest tubing available in that time period. The entire tandem bicycle with its original wooden rims weighs 40 pounds which is light for a tandem bicycle even by today’s standards.
A small Trilobite fossil and a bronze diobol from the time of Ptolemy I
A small ancient Egyptian statue (very small) I bought in Cambridge, UK. At least the dude who sold it told me it was real...
My Soul.