Old Stuff, What Do You Have?

[desi23]

Old stuff? A couple flint arrowheads and a hide scraper found on my grandfathers farm are probably pretty old. I do have a small collection of Roman coins and a couple Greek coins as well. Gun related would be some old original flasks, an H. Ashton US military pistol and an East India Company musket from the Nepal stash. I also have a small bore rifle with a Dayton Ohio marked lock but believe it is newer than the other two (like 1860's era).

I collect ammo and have loose Spencer rifle rounds, various other old rim fire shells and a pair of Volcanic bullets. Oldest boxed ammo is later, 1880's/90's. I would love to have some of the early cap & ball or original musket cartridges which would go so well with my muzzle loaders but all I find are a bit pricey for my budget.

 

[painter]

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!

I'd have to disagree. True, those people are gone, but far from forgotten. I can place names to many of them. They're part of history just like the old, and reproduction, weapons and accouterments that we all love and try to preserve by participating in this muzzleloading thing we do.

 

[Ames]

Gone, but well remembered. All the old families tied to the original farms are gone, but the farm name is well remembered.
People ask where in the county I live and I just tell them the old "xxxxxxx" farm. They know right where you are.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I collected arrowheads for years, dug a few mounds before it was illegal, I had some stuff that went back to at least 8,000 years. I gave all the good stuff to my granddaughter and donated one dug bowl (woodland) to the local museum.

I dug it before there were laws against digging, I didn't have any provenance to prove it was legal. I could have sold it on the artifact black market which is thriving where I live but thought donating it would be a better choice.

It is the one in the museum with chip out of the rim.

 

[smo]

10 gauge Wm Moore

Remington Rolling Block .43 Spanish

80 acres of dirt & rocks….

 

[1971fx]

Well used brown bess bought at a long gone shop in Davenport NY for a 150 dollars

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Spurs I use are late 1800’s made by North and Judd. Bronze with nickel spots.

 

[Kiltman20]

Wife.... She's really not that old, but she acts like it!

 

[LME]

I have an OLD body.

rob

You are not by yourself! I am so old that I can remember when the Dead Sea wasn't even sick!

 

[Josephg]

One old thing I have is a beer stein from the late 1700s. Still have some mechanic tools my dad gave me when I was twelve. Old rifles of course.

 

[excess650]

Is that a Figthron rifle? It looks quite a bit like one I have. View attachment 110912

NOT a Figthorn, but the same patchbox! Mine does have Womelsdorf architecture and hardware.

 

[FiremanBrad]

Original CW Cav Sabre. Dated 1864, West Chelmsford Mass.

 

[1971fx]

I have an old neighbor most of you have heard of

 

[Zapadach]

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 an old grind stone or pestle, that I found on top of a mountain ridge in the Mojave desert. My guess is it was used by a tribesmen or woman as recently as 1900 or all the way back to when the Mojave Indians started roaming that part of the desert.

 

[Dude]

I have an old soul and a bunch of old looking guns.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Oldest thing I have is a hunk of stalagmite.
And, lotsa old antiquie stuff and ml accessories.

 

[nhmoose]

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

Me too, Teen age marriages don't work, eh?

 

[Auldjin]

Oldest of my firearms I can date reliably are the all-steel pistols issued to the 2nd battalion Royal Highland Regiment. The battalion was raised in 1759 and disbanded in 1763.

Oldest man-made objects are Egyptian relics ashabti etc.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Man made objects go a lot farther back the Egyptian times, stone tools come to mind.
IMG_0410 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr

 

[Auldjin]

Yes, but they are the oldest I have.