Old Stuff, What Do You Have?

[painter]

My barn...circa 1860. I put 10,000 board feet of lumber into it about 30 years ago to restore it. Needs a roof, again, but I'm not going up there at 70. I'll have to pay someone else to do it, and I think I'll go with metal. It'll out last me, and my kids.

The house is gone now. Previous owners buried the sills in concrete, and the mold got so bad the house was unlivable.

 

[Rudyard]

A number of old Eastern barrels of considerable age & a barrel probably European with what appears to be a running Wolf of Passau mark . But the only sure dateable is a barrel by Alonzo Martinez of Madrid he died in 1720 so could be 17c early 18th .I stocked up the rifle barrel to a original snaphance & Too heavy .But the Alonzo barrel I stocked up to an Original Ketland lock in conservative English style l bowled a bunny OK but mostly just to save floating parts into context.
Rudyard

 

[Rudyard]

M1774/1841/51 Tapprifle
Top rifle on the rack. A little display I set up at a gun show last fall. I have a few more old times, but not like this.

I have a Tap rifle looks un issued I think they where all cleared out to US firms has the pointed Tige & massive ram rod the muzzle so thin they removed the bayonet stud . bore like new . Not sure if Danish or Norwegian same rifleing as Kammer lader same Kingdom at that date ?
.Regards Rudyard

 

[Johnny Tremain]

I had an 1832 side by side pistol, but sold it years ago.
Currently a 1850 pan primer horn

 

[Whughett]

A Burnside carbine. Made in 1864 in Providence Rhode Island. An 1894 Remington S/S 12 gage made in 1915 in Ilion New York and my self made in 1941 in Scott County Tennessee.

 

[Whitworth]

!847 dated Harper's Ferry M42 Musket is my oldest firearm. The meteorite I found with my metal detector may be around 14 billion years old according to the Big Bang Theory ☄

 

[andy52]

More than I could post in any one thread. I like old things to collect when I can. I have things ranging in Americana from the 1700s up to the late 1800s.

 

[tenngun]

Grandfather’s clock. I don’t know it’s age but had a receipt for a repair in 1888.
Family Bible published in 1854

 

[TNBandit]

For coins other than some Roman coins I have an Elizabeth 1 Sixpence from the early 1600s. Oldest gun and it still works is a Brown Bess from the Nepal cache that dates to 1800 or so

 

[2 shots]

1728 king george copper coin i found metal detecting on long island , n.y. and some rev war muskets

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

I’ve got a wife for more then fifty years.

Ha, got ya beat! My mother in law is 102 years old and going to celebrate Christmas with us.
Larry

 

[Buckskin25]

Arrowheads... date unknown

 

[Flintlocker.com]

At one time I was going to teach traditional wood working in a shop with no power. I have quite a few pedal ,treadle and hand cranked tools.

 

[user 48702]

My favorite granny, Granny Moses is 119 this year.

 

[Daveboone]

How much time ya got?
Probably most noteworthy is my Springfield 1863 Type 2, mfg 1864 ( I think I got that right)). It is in better condition than the modern replica my wife bought me for our 10th wedding anniversary. Handed down in the family. I have the original bayonette and scabbard for it. I also have my great grandfathers drum, made by himself for the local drum and bugle corp c. 1890. That aside, I treasure the reverse painted mirror depicting the bridge over the town in Germany (actually Austria), where our family lived prior to coming over around 1880, as well as the cuckoo clock they brought.
Aside from that, more blacksmith made hand tools than can be stored, old wood block planes, about six dozen 100 year old kerosene lanterns of varying models (wifes families name was Dietz before someone goofed the spelling to Deitz). I have a hard wood work bench with a ten inch thick single piece top that I bought at an auction, dated to the 1830-40 time period. Couldnt pass it up for forty dollars. I would love to figure out the wood type.

 

[JamesT]

Grandfather’s clock. I don’t know it’s age but had a receipt for a repair in 1888.
Family Bible published in 1854

Now that's priceless! Super cool..
JamesT

 

[Dale Lilly]

If we are talking about things other than gun stuff, I have a bunch. Three grandmother/grandfather clocks from 1800s; a large hand made, beautiful, mahogany wooden box with lid and bronze end handles from late 1800s; hand cut Swedish wine glasses brought from Sweden prior to civil war; huge altar Bible, undated but which includes a London Times add for the bible from 1850. Bible is in great condition. The bible has 1125 hand engraved stone cut prints. Additionally, each and every chapter first letter is an individual colored work of art .. no two alike [how many? You count 'em]. Most of the illustrations are full-page size. ... lots more which includes my old bones but that's enough. Polecat [ooops ... one thing more: several trunks brought from Europe by my immigrating great grandparents]

 

[Daveboone]

If we are talking about things other than gun stuff, I have a bunch. Three grandmother/grandfather clocks from 1800s; a large hand made, beautiful, mahogany wooden box with lid and bronze end handles from late 1800s; hand cut Swedish wine glasses brought from Sweden prior to civil war; huge altar Bible, undated but which includes a London Times add for the bible from 1850. Bible is in great condition. The bible has 1125 hand engraved stone cut prints. Additionally, each and every chapter first letter is an individual colored work of art .. no two alike [how many? You count 'em]. Most of the illustrations are full-page size. ... lots more which includes my old bones but that's enough. Polecat [ooops ... one thing more: several trunks brought from Europe by my immigrating great grandparents]

A friend has a similar heirloom bible....the artwork inside is absolutely amazing. I wonder where and how it was done? His is dated from the 1820s,

 

[PatriotKnight]

Who has old stuff, this might be fun to see who has what.

Have some pieces of eight. Oldest dated U.S. coin I have is 1824, Large Cent, normal date.

What do you have?

Knives?

I have 2 mite coins from 1130 AD
Several 1800’s US coins

 

[toot]

My barn...circa 1860. I put 10,000 board feet of lumber into it about 30 years ago to restore it. Needs a roof, again, but I'm not going up there at 70. I'll have to pay someone else to do it, and I think I'll go with metal. It'll out last me, and my kids.

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The house is gone now. Previous owners buried the sills in concrete, and the mold got so bad the house was unlivable.

some day that is all any of us will be- just people in a faded long ago photo! sad but true! think of it? GONE BUT FORGOTTEN!