How about five failed U.S. guns?
1845 Allen & Thurber Pepperbox
1860 Savage and North Revolver
1883 Minneapolis Firearms Protector Palm Pistol
1959 Dardick Model 1500
1966 MBAssociates Gyrojet Mark 1 Rocketeer Pistol
- Casing from a 5 inch naval gun off of the USS Berkeley
- 400+ year old Chinese silk robe with a 4-claw dragon given to my great-grandfather
the accelerator grid assembly from an ion mill.
a dead x-ray scintillation detector.
a dead x-ray tube.
the complete works of Tolstoy, Chechov, and Pushkin in Russian.
The second volume of the autobiography of Turkmenbashi in Italian.
Slide rule that my mom used when she got her MS in physics in 1955.
Stuffed Bufo marinus
split boules from synthetic sapphires
one of the most beautiful Mosin-Nagants ever made
A recumbent bicycle. At least I get bizarre looks when I ride it!
30,000 rounds of ammo.
Also have a cannonball the size of a bowling ball.
A Korean fertility statue, but mine is the 6" version.
I have two mason jars of rain water from 1976 and I think 77. I know the exact spot they were collected from as well. I found them after my mother died, quite and interesting find then. I have no idea what to do with them and I’ve asked water quality people if they want them and they don’t.
A hat signed by Papa John (the pizza guy).
A 1-1/2’ x 3’ piece of wood with a blow up of the cover from the October 11, 1982 issue of Newsweek. The cover story is Wild 'CATS"–The musical pounces on Broadway, and a photo of nine of the cast in full CATS costumes. How it found its way to the local thrift store so this Andrew Lloyd Webber fanatic could find and buy it I’ll never know.
I also got a 6" metal statue of Sideshow Bob that separates to reveal a two inch serated blade. If I ever kill anyone, I will leave that in their chest.
A funeral announcment for Donna Reed, she and my long gone MIL were into geneology and wrote and talked to each other often. It is personally signed by Colonel Asmus.
A cribbage board alledgedly made by an inmate at Alcatraz in 1936. It is made from a piece of driftwood and has JEM, Alcatraz, 1936 carved into the bottom. It came with 3 pegs made from bird bones. I have been able to confirm that there were 2 prisoners at Alcatraz at that time with the initials JEM.
3 water bottles that were props from the TV show Northern Exposure.
I use to have a bull penis walking stick but a dog owned by my son in law used it for a chew toy.
An velvet Afghan dress with little decorative bits of mirror sewn on it that was given to me by a mayor of one of the provinces there. Oh, and an antique mongolian leather hat.
A parking meter
A drive-in movie speaker
My daughters baby teeth in an Altoids tin
A clock that is labeled and runs backwards
A machete stuck in the top of my roll-top desk (for zombie outbreaks)
A Cyrix MII CPU
A letter from Jackie-O to my Grandmother thanking her for helping with the correspondence after JFK’s death, and a lovely lithograph of JFK which came with it.
Lot’s of Civil War bullets and buckles and such (none in good shape)
An olde-fashioned kitchen “multi-tool” of the type that door-to-door salesmen were always trying to sell to Blondie in the Dagwood strips. Supposedly you can make entire seven-course dinner with only this one tool. I’ve managed to open a bottle with it, but that’s about all.
A stinky bakelite hand cranked ice crusher from my Grandfather’s basement bar.
A 1946 KitchenMaster mixer, which still works beautifully.
Man, what’s happened to me? I got nothin’. I do have a goat’s skull, but that’s already been mentioned like 3 times.
I have a bracelet I made from my own teeth (4 wisdom, 2 premolars).
I have a 6-foot tall fiberglass kangaroo that was once part of a miniature golf course. She looks out over our living room from the upstairs loft.
Also, the bat rack from the visitors’ dugout at Milwaukee County Stadium is now in my garage. Got it an an auction after they tore the place down. It’s great for tools and odds & ends. I even keep a couple of bats in it!
I just pulled the AZK out of the cupboard - the mail carrier looked a bit gray, but it was a false alarm - and I tested the edge by shaving off a few hairs from my forearm. Man, that thing is razor sharp. I need something to chop up.
Yeah, I’ve got one too. I picked it up in the desert about 30 years ago. No idea where it is now, though.
I have a (very realistic looking) severed arm signed by Chuck Palahniuk.
Whoa Y’all, what’s up with the goat skulls?!?
So far I vote the fibreglass Kangaroo wins. It’s just got this combination of whimsy and history to it. . .
I say we give it one more day for people to add stuff, and then vote. We can comment it down to the top ten and then put in a poll. . .