whirlaway
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Lots of old!!!!!
I have an 1800 buffet in the dining room and liquour decanters back to the 1700s.
I have an 1800 buffet in the dining room and liquour decanters back to the 1700s.
What is the oldest "thing" you own in your household?
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I couldn't say my partners shorts because mine are older 
I can't think what is the oldest thing in our house. In the past couple of years I've passed down the few antiquities to my niece and nephew because I don't want to be the curator anymore.
I can't think what is the oldest thing in our house. In the past couple of years I've passed down the few antiquities to my niece and nephew because I don't want to be the curator anymore.
58limited
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I've got a book on U.S. railroads printed in 1868 and a couple of sandstone "balls" carved and used as grapeshot at the Alamo in 1836.
thor
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BAD LUCK!
Norgeway, yankees wouldn't spill the salt because it meant bad luck!
Norgeway, yankees wouldn't spill the salt because it meant bad luck!
I think that the oldest things are the pieces that make up the bedroom furniture. The furniture was made in 1860 and is birds eye and curly maple. Here is a detail of the bed headboard. Cat tail in picture is about 10 years old.
Harry
Harry
Without thinking too hard, I've got several postcards sent from various parts of Europe back to my grandmother and great grandmother from my great grandmother's brother Bert, who took 2 grand tours in 1908 and 1909. Pretty heady for a doctor from Sedalia, Missouri. There's more to the story though...Uncle Bert was gay (never married, he was the doctor in Sedalia who gave the "ladies of the evening" their health certification). It was rather funny, I asked my aunt about him (he'd died in the mid-50s) and she laughed and said "of course he was". Apparently the family legend is that he traveled to Europe (don't know with whom) but with a Ford automobile. He'd had the opportunity to invest in Ford (don't know to what extent---my understanding it was a corporate investment) but the Ford was so unreliable on the trip that he walked away.
I spent a fortune to have them framed and they're up on our mantel.
There's a bible from another side of the family from roughly the same era but I can't be arsed to look for it.
I spent a fortune to have them framed and they're up on our mantel.
There's a bible from another side of the family from roughly the same era but I can't be arsed to look for it.
That would be my husband...
kenmoreguy89
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Just do not know...
Putto, from late 1700 near the Venini vase.
Or the amphora that I don't really remember where it comes from, likely African or South America.
I've to ask my father as it always been there before my birth, I don't remember anything about but I was told it was very antique.
Or the chair....don't think so...
I had a lot of antiques stuff in my house but my father took it all to put in his new house...
But my parents always been into antiques, they used to be known in the area as they did run one of the most beautiful stall at antique's market....
That was just an hobby and never made of it a business even if I know they'd have liked to.
Infact as my father closed his 2 Jewewleries did open an antique's and antique's silveware shop...
He always had a thing for history and antiques, in his house has many things related to "Risorgimento", he also found submerged in the ground at his farm kight armors and guns of the spanish domination of the town of Valenza happened in 1656 or something like that.... yes, because the location where the farm is located was a battlefield and <span id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">important historical place</span><span class="hps">.
My father house infact is the once "Castello Menada"</span></span> now "Castello Stanchi".... that once was a castle, a fort, then purchased from nobles, transformed in plantation...
But I'm talking too much.....
I'm a blabbermouth....
Here the pics:
The amphora:
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Putto, from late 1700 near the Venini vase.
Or the amphora that I don't really remember where it comes from, likely African or South America.
I've to ask my father as it always been there before my birth, I don't remember anything about but I was told it was very antique.
Or the chair....don't think so...
I had a lot of antiques stuff in my house but my father took it all to put in his new house...
But my parents always been into antiques, they used to be known in the area as they did run one of the most beautiful stall at antique's market....
That was just an hobby and never made of it a business even if I know they'd have liked to.
Infact as my father closed his 2 Jewewleries did open an antique's and antique's silveware shop...
He always had a thing for history and antiques, in his house has many things related to "Risorgimento", he also found submerged in the ground at his farm kight armors and guns of the spanish domination of the town of Valenza happened in 1656 or something like that.... yes, because the location where the farm is located was a battlefield and <span id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">important historical place</span><span class="hps">.
My father house infact is the once "Castello Menada"</span></span> now "Castello Stanchi".... that once was a castle, a fort, then purchased from nobles, transformed in plantation...
But I'm talking too much.....
I'm a blabbermouth....
Here the pics:
The amphora:
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kenmoreguy89
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The Putto:
kenmoreguy89
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The chair:
kenmoreguy89
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Spilling salt means bad luck like breaking mirrors...
Here in Italy, what superticious tell to do if you spill some salt is to throw some behind your right shoulder to stop or limitate bad luck.....
Things I don't believe in...
Here in Italy, what superticious tell to do if you spill some salt is to throw some behind your right shoulder to stop or limitate bad luck.....
Things I don't believe in...
kenmoreguy89
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Hans, I could stay listening your realtive's stories for hours and hours.... love it.
There is no better history than the one you can hear from tellings of old people.
Love it! So love your salt container and it's history!
There is no better history than the one you can hear from tellings of old people.
Love it! So love your salt container and it's history!
firedome
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Pre-Revolution
Here's a pic of our key made sometime before 1776 by Paul Revere... our Great great &c, on and on Grandfather was a Minister in Boston at the time. Revere was an unknown silver/black/locksmith who made lots of ordinary stuff for people. They only saved the key because he "got famous" later on. It's actaully quite primitive.
Here's a pic of our key made sometime before 1776 by Paul Revere... our Great great &c, on and on Grandfather was a Minister in Boston at the time. Revere was an unknown silver/black/locksmith who made lots of ordinary stuff for people. They only saved the key because he "got famous" later on. It's actaully quite primitive.
davetranter
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Probably a book printed in 1683..... I have a couple of old coins somewhere, too.... Also another book, a 'Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare' (their spelling), printed in 1821...
Enjoying the thread
Dave T
Enjoying the thread
Dave T
philr
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I think it's a few old books that I kept among a lot that I had to throw away at my job many years ago. Among them a few old atlases. They aren't very rare or valuable books but I just couldn't throw them away.
Here's a Mitchell Atlas from 1860.
Here's a Mitchell Atlas from 1860.
philr
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And inside this atlas, I found a hand-written letter in a tiny envelope dated from 1854 and religious images from 1876. I'm wondering why they got there!
nurdlinger
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Somewhere I have an ICS textbook from 1906 called something like "How to Build a Rail-Road". (ICS means International Correspondence School)
