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Posted: 8/31/2015 4:29:07 AM EDT
I realize my collection is pretty insignificant, which is why I wanna see Arfcom's relics.
I recently got into collecting pieces of history. So, right now, I have: Velociraptor tooth and claw, ~100,000,000 years old? Civil war fired rounds Civil war "bite the bullets" Hominid skull fragment Roman coins What relics do y'all have? |
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I have a collection of savage made arrowheads. View Quote You can't say that! My father has.... I don't know what it's called. It looks like a donut, carved out of stone. Apparently, the native Americans would roll it along the ground and try to score a ringer on it, putting an arrow or spear right through the center - about the size of a quarter. |
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A 40 shilling note from the Colony of Connecticut
Trilobites A single bullet from the civil war |
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Griswold in decent shape
Roman coins Barber surgeon bloodletting kit, from back when I had an office |
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Griswold in decent shape Roman coins Barber surgeon bloodletting kit, from back when I had an office View Quote Pics? Also what condition are your Roman coins? Mine are legible... but that's about it. My father is a HUGE collector of ancient artifacts. Me, I'm just getting started. |
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Pics? Also what condition are your Roman coins? Mine are legible... but that's about it. My father is a HUGE collector of ancient artifacts. I'm just getting started. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Griswold in decent shape Roman coins Barber surgeon bloodletting kit, from back when I had an office Pics? Also what condition are your Roman coins? Mine are legible... but that's about it. My father is a HUGE collector of ancient artifacts. I'm just getting started. The coins are really worn down, you can barely read ther them. I've been meaning to photograph the Gris, it lives in dad's big ass safe. I'll drag out my D300 and take some decent pics when I get to his place later this week. |
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Silver and bronze Roman rings, Roman coin, a 1/2 groat, silver thrupenny bit, a monarchy...
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The coins are really worn down, you can barely read ther them. I've been meaning to photograph the Gris, it lives in dad's big ass safe. I'll drag out my D300 and take some decent pics when I get to his place later this week. View Quote Unfortunately, a lot of the Roman coins were melted down or lost in conflicts. Decent ones can be had for a fair price, if you look. The sad truth is that, just as metal detectors became affordable, people stopped giving a damn about the past. So, it made relics like 12# cannonballs affordable for those of us who care. Pictures of the Gris would be amazing! |
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Oldest manmade object I have is a sword from the Civil War. It's a simple NCO sword that a Union distant great great great great grandfather carried.
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US Model 1816 flintlock musket, converted to percussion, that was carried by my great-grandfather during the War for Southern Independence. He was a 16-year-old guard at the POW camp in Florence, SC, and when the war ended he (and his father, who was in the same company) walked on home with their guns. I got it from my grandmother (it was her father's) in 1967. I have no children, so don't know who I'll leave it to....maybe a cousin.
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a Roman coin, a couple of arrowheads, and the tattered remains of my virtue.
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It is forbidden to buy and sell the holy relics of the saints, otherwise I would have a bunch.
If anyone has any and doesn't know what to do with them I will pay shipping. |
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Porthole off the IJN destroyer Amagiri, plus a couple of other items of sunken WW2 naval vessels.
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I have a chunk of rib bone (I guess) from some prehistoric critter. No idea what it's from.
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Closest thing I have is some shrapnel and rocks from each of the Normandy beaches and a chunk of concrete from the German bunkers at Pont Du Hoc.
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Don't know if you'd call these relics, but my thread about my Grandfather has lots of items from mid-century.
Other than that, I have some grapeshot I bought from a store in Gettysburg back in the early 1980's. No idea if it really came off the battlefield or the tourist trap just found a ringer for me. Nothing really older than that. |
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I have my grandfather's grandfather's calculus book from 1814.
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Over the last couple years or so I've been on a frenzy collecting WWII fighter plane parts. I now have a number pieces; such a tachometer from a BF-109 and landing flap from of a FW-190. I've also been collecting signatures from various aces including Erich Hartmann, Adolf Galland and Walter Loos.
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Couple of Indian head pennies.
Had a few Musket balls from the revolution I found in Brooklyn. Lost them when I moved it Miami. |
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An intact Sixteenth century copper and silver Tibetan prayer wheel
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I have a collection of US Coins with some that are 100+ years old.
There's also an Springfield 1903 somewhere in my family that was used at the battle of Guadalcanal. I've had the privilege of putting a few rounds through it. |
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Some type of Dinosaur egg off my families old property in TN.
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