# What thing in your house would be worth the most 101 years ago?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 9, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thing-in-your-house-would-be-worth-the-most-101-years-ago/692728 "2014-07-09T22:35:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thing-in-your-house-would-be-worth-the-most-101-years-ago/692728/41 "2014-07-11T15:43:51Z")

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I’m sure the technology to create some sort of electric generator that matched the voltage/amp specifications to run an electronic device would also be possible.

Iphone, almanac, and textbooks are all winners but I can’t help but think antibiotics would trump them all.

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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-thing-in-your-house-would-be-worth-the-most-101-years-ago/692728/42 "2014-07-11T18:46:24Z")

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Its a shame I can’t just put the whole house on the list, though its possible I have some underpants that might qualify

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