Do you own any historical object?

My mother owns a Don Quixote edition from 1617. I expect to get a nice figure out of that.

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I have a austro-hungarian knife from WW1 that my Granddad gave me, similar to this but dulled and covered in rust.

>>1658044
10/10 disgusted

>>1658013
I have a Mosin-Nagant. Does that count?

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>>1658166

I can't see a lot of people reading Don Quixote anymore. 100 is the best I can do.

>>1658184
Yeah

>>1658185
Now your obvious, if you had that in the opening post it would have been 11/10 but alone it's 6/10, best I can do.

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I have this axe blade from a papuan tribe from the 70's does it count?

>>1658117
should have taken better care of it

>>1658044

Is it this?

http://camillesourget.com/en/livres-anciens-cervantes-quixote-1617/

>>1658247
exactly, Barcelona edition

>>1658247
>55k for a book

i mean i get it, piece of history and all that, but you can read don quixote for free

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I collect WW2 era weapons. I have a couple of WW1 era pieces. Inherited some medals and a 1912 Austrian pistol. Kind of took off from there. Pic related.

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taken off a Nazi officer's desk

>>1658044
post pics!

Let's see,

- American Civil War Kepi, mostly intact with brass insignia still attached (5th Michigan Infantry, Company E)
- Lincoln campaign pin owned by my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfater
- A 50 cent coin from 1861 owned by the same man
- Large tea chest allegedly from the Boston tea party, I cannot confirm or deny it's origin. Kept by my family
- Vietnam era M1 helmet with original cover, has a number of custom markings and a literal coon tail stapled to it
- Soviet Cold War Ushanka, including cockade pin
- Old Cold War commie block gas mask, not sure what model or country
- M91/30 Mosin from 1941, all numbers match and the rifle is in near unused condition, includes period correct Red Army cleaning kit and manual
- SMLE Mk. III*, Lithgow production, with original sling and cleaning kit, no Bayonet unfortunately
- Several old knick-knacks from India, my Step-Mom gave them to me years ago. Probably fakes, but they look nice and old (includes an ornate snuff box, mossy soapstone elephant statue, and a stone buddha statue)
- A number of pre-EU European coins
- A piece of wood from the deck of the USS Iowa
- US flag flown over an unspecified base in Korea, given to me by a Korea vet

And I think that's it. I have some other small things lying around not worth mentioning. Most of this stuff is kept in atmosphere controlled display cabinet in my home office. Makes for a good conversation starter.

No. Thinking about buying some coins just to own something historical.

>>1658287
Very nice!

>>1658294
I can´t right now, it´s in my mother´s home but is almost similar to >>1658247 except the cover is a little darker.
She has other valuable books from the 17th and 18th century, french and spanish.

i have a piece of berlin wall. counts?

>>1658013
I've got an old globe from the 1950's, plus a few early-1900s pennies.

>>1658322
One can hope your never allowed to touch them, if your mother has any sense.

>>1658347
I won´t touch them, the auctioneer will, with gloves ofc

>>1658360
>Auctioneer
I would have figured you'd just pawn them off.

>>1658218
It was like that when i got it.

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>>1658184
not that rare
pic related are venezuelan pro-chavez militias
seems Russia sent them crates full to MNs

>>1658493
most likely Castro sent them

I have two pieces of the Berlin Wall.

I´ve got a arrowhead from the Bronze Age and some celtic silver coins.

String of coins, mostly from Qian Long and his dad, Yong Zheng, but I saw a few from Kang Xi emperor as well.

I'm also the keeper of our family registry that was written around Dao Guang or Xian Feng era

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- Morgan silver dollar
- Trapdoor Snider conversion 1860s Enfield rifle. Unfortunately it was "sporterized", which seriously reduces the value. It's also in pretty shit condition.
- A painting by some Austrian guy from the 1850s
- Coins from Nazi occupied France
- A partially burned Reichmark
- Occupied Filipino yen note
- Grandpa's telegraph that he used during WW2
- Some letters from a great uncle who was in the navy during WW2 (he sent back the Reichmark and the Yen note)
- WW1 Doughboy helmet from the US army's 5th infantry division
- Some random milsurp shit like Soviet pins, an M1 helmet/m16 gasmask (dated 1962), and some other stuff you could easily find in a surplus store

>>1658493

Rarity isn't a factor with Mosins. They're among the most mass-produced firearms in history.

Ubiquity is their draw. They've become a staple of armies, militias, and gun owners at various points since 1891. They've helped win wars and rebellions, they've been thrown down in the mud in defeat, they've been stashed in crawlspaces and attics, they've been proudly hung on walls.

They are, collectively, millions of connections to more than a century of war, bloodshed, despair, and glory, from all over the world. There's an ex-sniper model in the corner a few feet from my chair, which was manufactured in 1943. When I was cleaning the decades-old cosmoline off of it, I found a capital R carved into the stock. I'll never know who carved that letter, or what trials they faced with that gun in hand, but I can shoot and clean and care for the same piece of hardware they held in their hands.

A gigantic German bible from the 1800s that's been in my family presumably since it was made. Sat on a pedestal in my great grandfather's foyer for about 50 years, now it's in a box in my living room and I have no idea how to properly care for or display it.

>>1658013
I have an old chalice that has something Masonic scribbled on it.

I got it from my Grandpa when he passed. The problem is that he wasn't in the Masons, but his father was.

His father came from Lebanon in the late 1800s.

That's about all I know of it.

>>1658986
>omg so historical
Might as well say a random 9mm round is "historical" because lots of people have been killed by other 9mm rounds. A random mass produced firearm is about as "historical" as any other mass produced object.

>>1658013
I have a late 1800s small pistol laying around the house somewhere.

It's got the hammer removed.

>>1658044
You never know WHAT is going to be posted on this board.

>>1658210
Which tribe and where? Somewhere along the Sepik I'm sure. I've got family in that God-forsaken country.

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grand army of the republic star. interesting history, the precursor to the VA, and the symbols on the star are fascinating. common, though, not worth anything.

1850s US penny.
So, yes barely.

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>>1659950
>>1658287
>>1658013
BEST stuff. I wish my grandfather or even great grandfather had anything to pass down. My great grandfather liked the Nazis, wish he got something though. Sadly he was a mere farmer from Brazil.

>>1658986
Good post over here

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I have some WW2 propaganda leaflets--the most interesting are the enemy's leaflets aimed at Allied troops.

This one compares the US reliance on technology and industrial might, but suggests that the German soldier one-for-one is better than the American soldier.

The weird wrinkly effect is because this example was actually distributed by a special mortar shell with a low-level explosive charge to blow the leaflets out.

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I have a bin full of Natzi shit my grandfathers pludered. Helmets, officer's hats, daggers, arm bands, etc. I also have a harmonica that my great-great-grandfather bought his son (my great-grandfather) in Italy in the early 1900s before they immigrated to the US. My great grandfather went through all of WWI with it on him, and his son then went through WWII with it. It disappeared in the 60s or 70s, but when my grandmother died my mom found it in a drawer in her house and gave it to me.

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>>1660086

The "B" side.

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>>1660086
>>1660089
that's brilliant! the shit the chinese and north koreans would drop and broadcast was absollutely bananas too

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Another German propaganda piece--this time using a scantily-clad woman to get the young soldier to pick it up; the "Life" magazine parody would have been familiar to pretty much all Allied Anglosphere troops.

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>>1660102

Backside.

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>>1660100

This is a Chinese PLA cotton printed handkerchief that was left tied to our barbed wire at night (which is mind-boggling ballsy). Brought back by a Canadian soldier.

>>1658013
I have some British coins from 1935

Nothing that impressive

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Christmas 1914, Princess Mary (daughter of KGV) funded a brass tin full of tobacco or cigarettes to every British Empire soldier on active duty. The gift was repeated in 1915.

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>>1660130

Pack of smokes--"tailor-mades" were pretty posh at a time when most men rolled their own.

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Jawohl

>>1658013
I have bullets, including .50 cals, produced in 1944-45 from my grandpa. Kind of weird considering he served in Korea.

Does owning a mosin count? I don't have it on me, but it definitely saw action during the second world war.

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>>1660149
the korean war was entirely run on surplus WW2 shit. even the food rations.

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>>1660149

Ammo, properly stored, has a pretty good shelf life. I've actually fired 1940s-dated .303 within the last couple of years. Worked fine.

>>1658280
Is that a Turkish Mauser Bayonet I spy? I bought one in a flea market in Stuttgart, thought it was a Nazi bayonet.
I've got the bayonet, a sherd of early 18th century Staffordshite slipwarethat I took from a site I worked on, a '52 Hungarian M44 moisin and a Hungarian cold war gas mask.

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>>1660190
forgot pic

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Not really. I own a complete collection of Molière's play from 1770, a prayer book from the early 19th century with an ivory cover, a Japanese painted fan IIRC from the late 18th century, and a Buddha/bodhisattva statue from Indochina in stone covered with metal, though I don't know how old it is or where exactly it's from, just that one of my ancestors brought it back from there.

But I'm from an old noble family, and they've been collecting stuff for a while. The family collection has been divided up, sold, burned down, stolen, etc over time though, so it's not as impressive as it could have been. Even the family castle built in the 12th century has been sold to another branch of the family two centuries ago. A big part of what's remaining was bought by the guy who brought back the statue I own. He was a diplomat and spent like two third of his life in East Asia and the Middle East, and every time he would come back it with boatloads of stuff. Statues, clothing, folding screens, weapons, tapestry, carpets, books, everyday life items, etc. A lot of it was sold when he died, but my grandparents house is still full of the stuff. My favorite items when I was a kid were huge carved wood doors, kinda like pic related, but bigger, and a samurai armor that was in a glass case. They also have tons of stuff that piled over the centuries, late medieval armors, weapons, paintings, etc. And way more recent things, like African masks and modern art. But again, these things keep getting sold.

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I have a Civil War era powder horn. Pic isn't it but is like it.

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>>1658013
I own WW2 Nazi concentration camp money that was used to pay prisoners for their work similar to pic related but from a different camp.

1911 jules verne book set

I have old slave deeds that my family used to own. We were wealthy plantation owners.

>>1658280
Must be hard to find ammo for that steyr

>>1660246
>even after enduring that hell grampa still couldn't part with perfectly good money

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>>1660190
>>1660193
That is so freaking cool. I love bayonets. No, the ones I have are two Enfield bayonets from Austalia and an American fighting knife. I keep running across German stuff but they make so many fakes of that stuff.

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>>1660296
It's funny you say that. I actually have a box of ammo for it that is just as old as it is. Probably rarer than the gun itself. My grandfather loved his plunder. The man had an entire room in his house full of guns and trophies. I was most impressed with his wall of german dress daggers. I didn't inherit any of them, and my knives I've collected myself. Most of the valuable stuff got left to my uncle, who clucked all of it.

>>1659025
>Anon refuses to let people enjoy things
Justice never sleeps.

>>1658013

I had a Nazi Yitler Youth armband and Iron Cross I got from a Russian.

I started having a bad string of events in my life and got superstitious.

So I got rid of both and life got better.

My dad's military leave jacket with corporal insignia still sewed on it+flag of his battalion (Fanteria Battaglione Cuneo)
Dad's 80s "mobile phone" which is the size, shape and weight of a brick
Grandpa's war medal
Grandpa's concentration camp ID (someplace in Austria)
Other grandpa's police medal (he was a police captain) and commendation for his work on the day of the Piazza Fontana terrorist attack
A German helmet, black, kinda big. Repainted but looks old, purchased in flea market
An Italian helmet, olive green, dented and with leather padding still inside. Gift to my dad from a friend who used to go on mountain trenches to look for stuff.
A curved knife of the kind Arabs give to their sons as a mark of adulthood or something, very ornate, sneaked out of Tunisia by great uncle, date unknown.

I own a bunch of early to late medieval stuff,original stuff not modern made

>Horsemans warhammer/pick.
>Medieval justice axe (for cutting off hands and feet more than heads)
>Nordic axe dug up at what used to be Dorestad.
>Mace head in complete condition from around 1350.
>Mace head dug up at the Towton battlefield near the cock beck.
>German medieval "knightly" dagger.
>Bollock dagger.

Oh and my gramps ww1 iron cross and frontline medals.

Looking to buy a German horseman axe from 1580 next once I have the funds.

>>1658184
A nugget is probably one of the most common rifles in the world.

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>>1658013
My dad owns a WWII History Book.

Published right after the war.

In the publication page, my country (Philippines) is still an American Commonwealth and Britain is still an empire.

>>1661530
You have qt hands.

>>1661573
Like my dirty fingernails, don't you?

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I want to begin collecting historic coins, but I'd like to start with something cheap that I don't have to feel bad finger fucking and leaving out on my desk. Where should I be looking, maybe late Roman bronze coins?

And if anybody has a go to vendor on eBay for historic coin, that would be neat too.

I found a plate with IG Farben logo and Swastika on its back in my grandparents' basement. Does that count?

Also a weird metal object that looks like a primitive axe/hammer

>>1660040
>Mere farmer from brazil

>>1658013
Where is this coin from and who is depicted? According to the filename is is Alexander but I've never seen him portrayed this way. Either you got it wrong or it is a fake.

>>1658210
Looks like a rock

>>1661793
Yeah senpai that don't look legit, looks like something I can buy in the street market

>>1661793
It's a gold stater Alexander III.

http://www.timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/42585-s.jpg

It's Athena portrayed on the coin.

>>1661817
That makes sense. Thanks.

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>>1658013

Yea

>>1662095
Beautiful

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>>1662117

Thanks.

Have another.

I should take pictures of my coin collection so I don't /k/ up the place too much.

>>1661752
>not finding your own roman coins
You better not live in Europe or I'm gonna fist your asshole.

>>1660391
Weird...

>>1662172
I like in the US, bought from some dude off of vcoins which seemed like a legit site.
>pls no bully

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I have my 2nd great grandfather's (grandma's side) pocket watch from 1870s or so. Also a framed picture of him and his wife.

An old lantern (pic related) from late who knows when, it has a little plaque on it that says something about "marine division"

Also my 2nd great grandmother's (grandfather's side) huge ass Bible from 1880s with illustrations. Plus a picture of her taken around 1930s and her bank account log from the same decade.

Basically my family started keeping things and passing them on in the family since the late 1800s.

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>>1658915
>A painting by some Austrian guy from the 1850s

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>>1658279
Pleb

Lots of ancient greek and roman coins. Also a couple roman lead sling bullets