# Lost treasure or historical item you most want?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 22, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328 "2016-12-22T00:05:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/1 "2016-12-22T00:05:01Z")
If you could happen across a lost item or treasure from history, which one would you want? Myself, I’d want the [Masamume sword](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune#Honjo_Masamune) along with the 14 others [turned over to a still unidentified US soldier](https://thedailybeagle.net/2014/03/23/the-honjo-masamune-a-lost-japanese-treasure/) at the end of WWII.
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### Author:  [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/2 "2016-12-22T00:49:53Z")
Holy Grail:
> **[Holy Grail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail)**
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> The Holy Grail (French: Saint Graal, Breton: Graal Santel, Welsh: Greal Sanctaidd, Cornish: Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Various traditions describe the Holy Grail as a cup, dish, or stone with miraculous healing powers, sometimes providing eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance, often guarded in the custody of the Fisher King and located in the hidden Grail castle. By analogy, any elusive object or goal of great significance may be pe...
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/3 "2016-12-22T01:11:08Z")
The tablet containing Commandments 11-15.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/4 "2016-12-22T01:33:38Z")
Eric Clapton’s Beano 'burst, the '59 Les Paul he used to record the “Beano” album with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and led to the Clapton is God graffiti. Stolen in '66 I think.
I’m not a huge fan, but it would have huge value and a 59 burst would be fun to have! It’s whereabouts are rumored to be known, in the hands of a collector with a huge number of bursts.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/5 "2016-12-22T01:40:23Z")
Is the Library of Alexandria too much to ask for?
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/6 "2016-12-22T02:00:58Z")
The intact Antikytheria Mechanism.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/7 "2016-12-22T03:15:03Z")
The movie _Remodeling Her Husband_ from 1920. It’s the only film Lillian Gish ever directed, and it starred her sister Dorothy Gish. The libretto, or “script,” in so much as silent films had them, was written by Dorothy Parker, who also composed the intertitles. I want soooooooo much to see that movie.
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### Author:  [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/8 "2016-12-22T03:34:56Z")
Statue of Selket from Tut’s tomb.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/9 "2016-12-22T03:42:16Z")
The lost reel from Woodstock showing Pete Townshend smacking Abbie Hoffman with his guitar.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/10 "2016-12-22T04:41:08Z")
> [@hogarth](#):
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> Is the Library of Alexandria too much to ask for?
No, so I call dibs. You’ll have to think of something else now.
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### Author:  [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/11 "2016-12-22T06:27:29Z")
I’ll take the Colossus of Rhodes.
It would look very good in my living room. 🙂
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/12 "2016-12-22T07:52:35Z")
The Ark of the Covenant, with tablets inside.
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### Author:  [@appleaday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleaday)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/13 "2016-12-22T08:58:53Z")
The original deck of Tarot cards.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/14 "2016-12-22T12:45:45Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> The intact Antikytheria Mechanism.
Yes. I mean, there are various modern reconstructions of it, and I do believe they’ve probably worked out the function and purpose to within a smallish margin of error, but still, it would be lovely to see a working original example.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/15 "2016-12-22T12:48:56Z")
I’d also sort of like to be able to recover King John’s lost treasure, but I am not sure I believe it was really lost in the way reported.
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### Author:  [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/16 "2016-12-22T13:01:21Z")
The first set of tablets Moses brought down from the mountain. I want to see if they match the commandments recorded.
As for things I think actually exist it’d be cool to have some genuine viking war kit, as it is there’s very little archaeological evidence for what they wore in battle before starting to import arms and armor.
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### Author:  [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/17 "2016-12-22T13:54:36Z")
[The Amber Room](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room). I haven’t redecorated in ages.
And the [missing Apollo 11 tapes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes).
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/18 "2016-12-22T14:37:03Z")
Mention of the Amber Room reminds me that I’d love to at least see, if not actually _have_ (oh, what the heck, _have_–it would look better in my yard that a garden gnome) [the silver tree of Karakorum](http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2010/11/silver-tree-at-karakorum-1450-study-of.html).
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/19 "2016-12-22T16:38:29Z")
Marlowe’s complete works. English culture is much poorer without them.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/20 "2016-12-22T20:39:12Z")
I just want my original Privateer game back.
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