# 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:** 16
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### Author:  [@jacobsta811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacobsta811)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/41 "2016-12-25T12:32:38Z")
Shakespeare’s lost plays: [Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare's_plays#Lost_plays)
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### Author:  [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/42 "2016-12-25T15:11:41Z")
A live triceratops.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/43 "2016-12-25T18:07:42Z")
All those missing Silent Films, lost perhaps forever.
☹
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/44 "2016-12-25T19:38:20Z")
Whatever was the “original” Bowie knife. Many versions are purported to be that piece, but I want the undisputed original one. There are at least these candidates:
(see all the ones below at [http://www.relentlessknives.com/BowieHistory.html](http://www.relentlessknives.com/BowieHistory.html)) and there may be even others.
But there has to be at least ONE original one!
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### Author:  [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/45 "2016-12-26T00:10:44Z")
My first wish was the Ark of the Covenant but since that is taken, I’ll go with the missing 17 minutes of the Watergate tapes.
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### Author:  [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/46 "2016-12-26T01:08:10Z")
There’s not a specific copy I want but I would love to have an original velocipede and an original high-wheeler, both in mint condition.
I would also love to high some original Black Sabbath sheet music.
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### Author:  [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/47 "2016-12-26T01:40:39Z")
As a card collector, I want the first one… something like [this](http://www.psacard.com/articles/articleview/7623/first-baseball-card-1863-harry-wright-coming-auction-block-rea-spring-2013)
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/48 "2016-12-26T03:09:42Z")
The second half of “Dead Souls,” most of which Gogol burned before it was published.
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/49 "2016-12-26T03:10:12Z")
The missing 007 DB5.
> **[The Mystery of the Missing Goldfinger DB5](https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/articles/mystery-missing-goldfinger-db5)**
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> As mysterious as the iconic film character, James Bond himself, the theft of the classic 1965 Aston Martin DB5 is one of the most baffling cases of grand theft auto recognized today. The high-profile crime stumped Boca Raton Police Department,...
The Gospel of Q
[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/q.html](http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/q.html)
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/50 "2016-12-27T13:29:23Z")
I want whatever was really in the chamber under the Sphinx. Even just to see it, or know what it is.
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### Author:  [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/51 "2016-12-27T13:30:34Z")
> [@jacobsta811](#):
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> Shakespeare’s lost plays: [Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare's_plays#Lost_plays)
Dammit, I came in here to dibs those!
Can I come over and gaze at them?
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/52 "2016-12-27T13:38:44Z")
> [@Whatever4](#):
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> Statue of Selket from Tut’s tomb.
Is that a lost treasure? I saw it in person, when the King Tut museum exhibition came through San Francisco. In fact, I was fortunate enough to see it twice. (once at school, and once with my family.) I was so stricken with that particular figure that I bought a postcard of it in the museum shop. I remember her eyeliner had a little chunk missing out of it, I finally fixed it on the postcard, didn’t seem right that she should have to go through history that way. I kept the postcard over my altar for years.
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### Author:  [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/53 "2016-12-27T17:24:03Z")
> [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#):
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> [The Amber Room](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room). I haven’t redecorated in ages.
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> And the [missing Apollo 11 tapes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes).
Dang! I forgot about the Amber Room - are you willing to break off a little piece for me? Maybe just a closet?
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/54 "2016-12-27T18:51:50Z")
[The Storm on the Sea of Galilee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Storm_on_the_Sea_of_Galileehttp://) by Rembrant.
Another one is most of the gold and jewels that was lost in the Noche Triste when Cortez’ men escaped from the Aztec capital. In their greed many Spaniards were reported to drown in the now buried water ways of the Aztec capital because their bags and spaces in their clothing or armor were stuffed with gold. So several places under Mexico city could have a grim bonanza.
And speaking of more possible buried gold: the lost Inca city of Paititi, thanks to modern technology and recent explorations there are hints that this one may be close to being identified/found in a few years.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/55 "2016-12-27T20:29:30Z")
Hitler’s Ball.
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### Author:  [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-treasure-or-historical-item-you-most-want/775328/56 "2016-12-27T20:49:54Z")
The library of Alexandria.
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