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My Spirit Otter
Jun 15, 2006


CANADA DOESN'T GET PENS LIKE THIS

SKILCRAFT KREW Reppin' Quality Blind Made American Products. Bitch.

madeintaipei posted:

looked fine assembled but the action moved in the stock a freightening amount.

It's a good that happened before the gun fired. i can imagine that the whole upper receiver would blow out of the stock, right into your face.

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SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

I bought one of those ancient Roman coins from samart but it got reburied somewhere around here.

Dr. Fraiser Chain
May 18, 2004

Redlining my shit posting machine


Who knew that post the oldest thing you own would turn into a gun show

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Goodpancakes posted:

Who knew that post the oldest thing you own would turn into a gun show

There are a lot of old guns out there because guns last a very long time.

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

Goodpancakes posted:

Who knew that post the oldest thing you own would turn into a gun show

Well built things that were expensive when new, I guess. Slightly surprised no one has shown up with an old sewing machine or ancient camera. I expect a flood of people with neat old furniture.

I'm packing now, so no pics, but I have the kitchen table from my great-grandmother's house. There is a picture of it there in 1910, and I've seen pictures of it in family houses through the 80's when my grandfather got it. The table is dead simple, very small with the leaf folded down, the stain is a pleasant red, and it's covered with old burns and scars. Even got two of the chairs! Someone, probably my great-grandfather or one of his brothers, made that by hand for her and we've used it continuously since then. Perfect table for poor people. When you don't have as much, just make the table smaller.

WILDTURKEY101
Mar 7, 2005

Look to your left. Look to your right. Only one of you is going to pass this course.
an episode 1 promotional jar jar binks fruit by the foot. its at my parents house tho.

My Spirit Otter
Jun 15, 2006


CANADA DOESN'T GET PENS LIKE THIS

SKILCRAFT KREW Reppin' Quality Blind Made American Products. Bitch.

Goodpancakes posted:

Who knew that post the oldest thing you own would turn into a gun show

everything boils down to either gun parts or bike parts, you've been here long enough to know that

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Non-human, some Permian-Triassic Ammonite fossils, human, some Saharan Neolithic handaxes and projectile points.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Goodpancakes posted:

Who knew that post the oldest thing you own would turn into a gun show

Don’t poo poo in a thread instead? Report and move on. Plenty of content was being posted.

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Some 1920s 78s

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Egbert Souse posted:

Some 1920s 78s

Of what?!

Dr. Fraiser Chain
May 18, 2004

Redlining my shit posting machine


Burt Sexual posted:

Don’t poo poo in a thread instead? Report and move on. Plenty of content was being posted.

I don't mind! I'm just legitimately surprised so many of them are guns

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008
I got old Soviet Polish translations of Lord of the Rings that I inherited from my mother. They're like from the 60's or something..

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 9, 2016

by Reene
I think my 1911 copy of Peter Pan/ Peter and Wendy

Top Hats Monthly
Jun 22, 2011


People are people so why should it be, that you and I should get along so awfully blink blink recall STOP IT YOU POSH LITTLE SHIT

Beachcomber posted:

Safety first, I guess, but is that really necessary as long as you don't keep powder around?

It is less "gun safe" and more the fact I don't have a good place to store it at the moment and don't just want it hanging in the open. If someone stole it and tried to operate it I would be very impressed.

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

Top Hats Monthly posted:

It is less "gun safe" and more the fact I don't have a good place to store it at the moment and don't just want it hanging in the open. If someone stole it and tried to operate it I would be very impressed.

Lol, I tried to find your original post and refer you to TFR's resident antique gun dude (McNally from GiP), but clicking "show only this user's posts" shows everything except your posts.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Top Hats Monthly posted:

It is less "gun safe" and more the fact I don't have a good place to store it at the moment and don't just want it hanging in the open. If someone stole it and tried to operate it I would be very impressed.

you could probably make a superior weapon with a metal tube from the hardware store and an electric BBQ lighter

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
I own what is officially deemed to be a piece of The Cross.


So...about 2,000 years I guess.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
[double post]

Applesnots
Oct 22, 2010

MERRY YOBMAS

I own a Japanese sword that was made around 1450.

It is an uchigatana,, a kinda precursor to the katana.
Here it is next to a regular katana from the 1600 hundreds. A little shorter and meant to be used one handed.

Applesnots fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Nov 3, 2019

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
Lol I got 60k views on my 1939 Chris craft boat porn. In a week.

Imgur is weird

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

A French violin made in like 1894

That sounds like it would be cool and expensive but it turns out it’s only worth like $400

Vinny Possum
Sep 21, 2015

THUNDERDOME LOSER
An over a century old printing of the Leaper-Molokan holy book Dukh-i-zhizn or "Spirit and Life"

I'll update with pics when I get home.

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Applesnots posted:

I own a Japanese sword that was made around 1450.

It is an uchigatana,, a kinda precursor to the katana.
Here it is next to a regular katana from the 1600 hundreds. A little shorter and meant to be used one handed.


those are like priceless right

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

My office table. My parents got it for my bedroom when I was like 10, I'm now 42.

Oldest thing I bought was a big French style coffee cup I bought in my first week at uni because so sophisticated right?

Applesnots
Oct 22, 2010

MERRY YOBMAS

Former DILF posted:

those are like priceless right

Not really, Japan made a lot of swords. Couple of grand maybe.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Former DILF posted:

those are like priceless right

here's a 13th century sword you can buy on Ebay right now. i can assure you it has a price :v:

quote:

Condition:
Used
https://www.ebay.com/itm/13th-Century-Knights-Sword/183285895086

Alan 00X
Dec 15, 2017
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My virginity

Shrieking Muppet
Jul 16, 2006
I have a tiny necklace sized coin from the Atocha that dates from 1620s.

Untrustable
Mar 17, 2009





I have a rifle built in 1870, retrofitted in an unsafe way to use as a last defense during world war 1. Technically it can be fired but the gun goons told me it'd probably explode, killing, blinding, or otherwise maiming me. So it hangs on my wall.

Myron Baloney
Mar 19, 2002

Emitting dimensions are swallowing you

KiteAuraan posted:

Non-human, some Permian-Triassic Ammonite fossils, human, some Saharan Neolithic handaxes and projectile points.

I got my son a nice Saharan handaxe, on the one hand I feel bad about the immense number of artifacts from that part of the world getting sold in bulk but on the other it is really inspiring to handle it and think about human creativity and craft at work something like 300,000 years ago.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Myron Baloney posted:

I got my son a nice Saharan handaxe, on the one hand I feel bad about the immense number of artifacts from that part of the world getting sold in bulk but on the other it is really inspiring to handle it and think about human creativity and craft at work something like 300,000 years ago.

don't feel bad about owning neolithic handaxes. those things are as common as dirt. people made new handaxes all the time and then just threw them away instead of carrying it around

SoldadoDeTone
Apr 20, 2006

Hold on tight!
I had a bunch of swords from various centuries, but I left them at my parents' place, and dad gave them away when he had Alzheimer's.

At least I still have one from WWII...

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

SoldadoDeTone posted:

I had a bunch of swords from various centuries, but I left them at my parents' place, and dad gave them away when he had Alzheimer's.

At least I still have one from WWII...

who was using swords in WW2?

edit: Japan :doh:

Apollodorus
Feb 13, 2010

TEST YOUR MIGHT
:patriot:
Roman coins, also a glass game piece I accidentally looted from Pompeii.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Apollodorus posted:

Roman coins, also a glass game piece I accidentally looted from Pompeii.

Where did you source your coins from?
I looked into them for the novelty factor a couple years back before deciding I wouldn't ever really DO anything with them or display them properly, and that the market is absolutely saturated with fakes.

Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs


Broken jug from Edgefield, SC, dated to around 1830. I have a few fragments of pottery from the same area/era.

I've got a few coins from the beginning of the 19th c, and I think I've got one from the end of the 18th, but they're packed up right now.

inokichi
Nov 3, 2005

My house I suppose. 1870s - pretty par for the area though. The house we owned before that was 1820s I think.

dead prez
Sep 22, 2019

Everytime I look around, I see
So much drama goin down
Everytime I look around, I see
So much fakeness goin down
IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

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LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

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Apollodorus posted:

Roman coins, also a glass game piece I accidentally looted from Pompeii.

How do you accidentally loot from Pompeii?


I have a pendant made from an 1876 Philadelphia souvenir penny. My mom had two, and I got them set into gold bezels.

I also have an old cane sword from 1900. My grandma always told this story of an uncle that bought it for self defense during the Boxer Rebellion. I found it when we were cleaning out grandma's house and we were all bamboozled that not only had the story not been BS, but that she had it the entire time.

I still have no goddamn idea what the guy was even doing in China during the Boxer Rebellion. My guess is lying about where he got the cane sword.

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