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Your Oldest Possession?
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I envy you guys and your antique book collections. One day when I have cash I want to build up a nice library, including antique boooks. The oldest books I have now date from the 1930s.
skunk said:
that, and the other books on this thread are so cool
but are any of them up for bathtub reading?
you know, i had the missing pages of the dead sea scrolls and my mother and law used it to wrap tiffany vases she sent out as party favors...and i didn't get to read the rest of it
My oldest possession that I got brand new and keep close to me is probably my social security card. I think I got it around 12-- I'm 37 and I've still got the original one. That's 25 years of wear and tear and it looks it.
My oldest possession that was given to me by my uncle and already "old" is a straight razor kit dated 1883. It has two straight razors (one in good condition the other chipped) with what appear to be "mother of pearl" handles and a wooden block with a weird rubbery (but not rubbery- don't know what it is) but hard 1/2 inch thick surface. I've always thought it was to sharpen the blade, but I don't see how you can sharpen a blade on rubber.
My oldest possession that was given to me by my uncle and already "old" is a straight razor kit dated 1883. It has two straight razors (one in good condition the other chipped) with what appear to be "mother of pearl" handles and a wooden block with a weird rubbery (but not rubbery- don't know what it is) but hard 1/2 inch thick surface. I've always thought it was to sharpen the blade, but I don't see how you can sharpen a blade on rubber.
My oldest is probably my black laquered steel and chrome bed by Norman Bel Geddes from the thirties. That and my antique electric clock collection from the thirties. I think the bed is the oldest though.
Let's try it out on MadJew's entrymax_altitude said:That looks more like some kind of torture device.
A Minox Wetzlar spy camera (8-mm I think). It was made in Germany and my Eskimo Stepmother gave it to me a few years ago.
My late mother had a cigarette case the looked like it could have been from the Art Deco era. Don't know exactly where it is, might be in the safety deposit box.
An African mask made with wood and copper. Don't know if it is really all that old though.
Some really old history books on North America.
My late mother had a cigarette case the looked like it could have been from the Art Deco era. Don't know exactly where it is, might be in the safety deposit box.
An African mask made with wood and copper. Don't know if it is really all that old though.
Some really old history books on North America.
Leather is used to make razor strops -- which are used in the final stage of sharpening a razor.DrStrangelove said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strop
oldest possession
My oldest possession is a 1865 newspaper from when President Lincoln was assiginated.
Unfortunatly, I've had to store it in the dark. It has become very brittle.
I'm going to send it away soon, and a company is going to treat it, and frame it.
From what I understand, it is pretty much worthless.
My oldest possession is a 1865 newspaper from when President Lincoln was assiginated.
Unfortunatly, I've had to store it in the dark. It has become very brittle.
I'm going to send it away soon, and a company is going to treat it, and frame it.
From what I understand, it is pretty much worthless.
mpw said:
Yes, it may very well be a very think, hard "block" of leather on the wood. It looks like an black board eraser. Good call.