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Posted: 1/20/2021 9:13:24 AM EDT
I think we all know about Titanic NUT COAL, arrow heads and Roman coins, but what other interesting items are you aware of?
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The Constitution?
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True.  Too bad I can't afford it.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 9:21:44 AM EDT
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M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, M1903 and 1917, USGI 1911A1's.
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They moved it to the fiction section today
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 9:37:23 AM EDT
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Really really old Fords. Model T, A, etc...

Also really old:
tractors and implements
jewelry
art works
musical instruments
scientific or medical equipment
military equipment
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 9:41:55 AM EDT
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we have an original Panama Canal bond at the office in a frame.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 9:42:36 AM EDT
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Old cast iron cookware
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They moved it to the fiction section today

Link Posted: 1/20/2021 9:47:09 AM EDT
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No affiliation but https://www.ima-usa.com/

Loads of mil antiques, good mailing list to be on just to read about interesting stuff. Affordable is relative, but was surprised at how attainable some legit historical items can be
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 9:47:12 AM EDT
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Stormy Daniels
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Trinitite
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Joe Biden
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Only if you're China.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:05:22 AM EDT
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I've got a piece of steel from the Battleship Texas
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:13:58 AM EDT
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Cancelled stock certificates/bonds
Autographs
First Edition Books
Art (go for things you like that are comparably inexpensive)

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can't own but pretty sure you can rent
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:16:22 AM EDT
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V8/V10/V12

Hell, any ICE for that matter.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:16:41 AM EDT
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My wedding band is lined with teak from the deck of the USS North Carolina.  I guess that's historical?  

Mine looks like this, but it's teak lined like this.
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I'm shameless.






Relatively inexpensive, insofar as 300-600 year old items go.  $1-4k each for originals, depending on type/condition/rarity.  Naughty little bugger 2nd from the left is a reproduction... he shall be culled as a traitor and replaced with a Polish spear... which I haven't gotten around to mounting.

Some very nice ones go $5-15k, with the primo, cat's ass ones going $50k, but I've only seen one go that high.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:23:36 AM EDT
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You can buy chunks of the Soviet Buran space shuttle heat tiles on Ebay
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:29:02 AM EDT
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My history bunker.

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Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:29:14 AM EDT
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The Bandit’s ride

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Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:30:27 AM EDT
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Physical Enron Shares.  I have one and want to frame it and put it up in my office.

I want a share of the South Sea Company, but I haven't done enough research on em.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:42:32 AM EDT
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Monkey wrenches.  They are generally quite affordable if you aren't picky about condition.

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That is pretty cool

Looked it up...how can you tell if they’re legit?
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:44:36 AM EDT
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I want one of the German uranium cubes.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 10:45:45 AM EDT
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Do cool prehistorical objects count in this thread?
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They come with a FAQ.

Its says:

Is tile real?

Da. Is real.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:03:11 AM EDT
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Keep them coming, some good stuff so far.
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All over really.

I kind of want something from ancient Egypt, but I don’t know enough to not get burned. Plus I don’t want to spend tons of money for something that’s going on a shelf.
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Absolutely.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:12:03 AM EDT
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Here's an 18th century engraved spike tomahawk found/dug at an Ottowa village site in Michigan, next to the contemporary replica I had a blacksmith make for me.

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eta: with what look to be tally marks - possibly kills
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:14:03 AM EDT
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Nihonto. It's pretty cool to hold a 500 year old samurai sword and wonder where it's been and what's been done with it.
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I have an actual piece of the foil used on the Apollo 11 command module that flew to the moon. It came with provenance and everything. My wife got it for me.
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One of the earliest known American Longrifles, known as the RCA 19 rifle (actually a smoothbore however), early 1750s Pennsylvania, made for an Indian Chief and engraved to his liking. Believed to have been made for Chief Paxinosa, a Shawnee Chief and American patriot, though some dispute it was for him. Nevertheless, one of a handful of surviving pre-Revolutionary War American rifles.

It's currently on exhibit at the Fort Pitt Museum in Pittsburgh.

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Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:23:59 AM EDT
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nazi lugers
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:24:46 AM EDT
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I have coal from the Titanic, a piece of the Berlin Wall and a compressor fan from a Concorde
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:29:45 AM EDT
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I don't have much save for some trench art form WW1 and a 5'' shell casing from the Battleship USS California.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:30:41 AM EDT
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Cool stuff.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:47:18 AM EDT
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How about this? Borchardt.

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One of the coolest "historic" things I've obtained, or even ever held:

17th century English sword excavated at Jamestown. Still has an edge.

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Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:55:03 AM EDT
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very cool. I could spend all day there lol
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 11:59:24 AM EDT
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I've got a German Luger. My uncle took it from a dead German in WW II and my dad bought it from him for $40. When my dad passed I got it.
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I've got a few as well, also some nazi flags looted by some GIs, though posting those would probably get me on a list somewhere. I also have a wooden model of a U boat looted from the Nazi sub base in Brest, France. I think it was on one of those huge table maps, where they'd push around the U-boat models with a pole to show their position. Now that I think about it, I also have a couple wooden chess pieces looted out of Hitler's Berghof.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 12:08:02 PM EDT
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Someone else posted this site earlier. I bought an Augustus denarius from him that came with a very well made silver bezel:
http://www.ancientresource.com/index.html
Nothing about the transaction raised any flags at all and I do believe him to be trustworthy.  You can spend a lot of time chasing rabbits on the website - interesting stuff.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 12:11:00 PM EDT
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Zimbabwe currency.

Civil War era muskets and swords.
Link Posted: 1/20/2021 12:18:05 PM EDT
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That is pretty cool

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That is pretty cool

Looked it up...how can you tell if they’re legit?



I bought a small broken off chunk years ago.  It had a little cheesy authenticity cert with it.  the real test was putting a lighter to it trying to get it hot
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