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VanHalener
08-22-2009, 02:08 AM
Hey, what the hell. There is no =VH= news so you have a moment to feed my curiosity, don't cha?

Yesterday I was cleaning and stowing gear when I realized that the bayonet I was sharpening is now over 100 years old. In fact, this Canadian bayonet given to me by a close family friend is 105 years old and going strong.
I use the hell out of it and wish I had another.
~I'll put up a picture of it shortly~

What is the oldest thing in your house right now?

jackassrock
08-22-2009, 09:38 AM
a '57 Fender Duo-Sonic

chefcraig
08-22-2009, 09:54 AM
Me. http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/free-mad-smileys-264.gif (http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/Free-Baby-Smileys/)

VanHalener
08-22-2009, 10:31 AM
a '57 Fender Duo-Sonic

Nice one. Getting up there in years. I'd like to hear that sucker play.

I have to get these pictures up this morning but the second oldest thing in the house is a Nazi flag captured during combat operations.

Anonymous
08-22-2009, 10:36 AM
Almost everything in my house is the original furniture that came with the apartment, with the exception of the bed, TV, computer, one armchair à la Archie Bunker and the desk for the computer.

So those five things are the youngest. All the rest dates back to the 1980s, beginning of.

Cheers! :bottle:

standin
08-22-2009, 10:38 AM
1896
ESSAYS by Ralph Waldo Emerson
First Series

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://www.rwe.org/pages/Essays.htm)

Candy Girl
08-22-2009, 12:35 PM
First thing comes to mind....1954 Gibson acoustic Southern Jumbo sunburst. It and the house are the same age. I know I have books that are older and wheat head pennies, but that's not as interesting. ;)

Ally_Kat
08-22-2009, 12:44 PM
Personally? I have 2 Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank eagle banks from the 50's that inherited.

twonabomber
08-22-2009, 12:52 PM
i've got some of my grandmother's old furniture. a high backed claw foot chair with un-upholstered arms, a drop-leaf end table, and a couch. i remember always liking the chair when i was a kid, now it's my Sunday morning readin' the paper chair. my niece and nephew would call it the Santa Claus chair. the couch is probably the newest of the three pieces. it was reupholstered in the '90's and is in great shape. they don't build 'em like that any more.

i also have her old drop leaf (gate leg, maybe it is) dining room table but it's in storage, i don't know if i'd ever use it. it's kind of short compared to modern tables and i'd never find chairs to match it.

WARF
08-22-2009, 12:55 PM
An unopened package of condoms!

standin
08-22-2009, 01:19 PM
Chan,
I looked and I referanced and this is what I found

Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article (http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Li-Young_Lee)

wrote a poem

http://dspace.gsu.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/2197/199/5/08_partridge.pdf

from there
1983
The Travellers' dictionary of ... - Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=1649AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA80&ots=TvMhSx76Mn&dq=closer%20contemplation%20we%20condescend%20to%2 0bestow%2C%20the%20more%20disgustful%20is%20that%2 0booby%20nation%20I%20have%20no%20gift%20to%20see% 20a%20meaning&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q=&f=false)

to this
Moyers on Democracy - Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=f42INaX6uX8C&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=The+closer+contemplation+we+condescend+to+besto w,+the+more+disgustful&source=bl&ots=jk11QIn_Ko&sig=vzo1GkXEl11NWpTfcZGU408_s7E&hl=en&ei=rR2QSq3lDYqutges3szOBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false)


This quote appears to be from Emerson's Journals when he was 20.

I am not a Emerson Thumper, I know a lot of people are. He is like one of the founders of Transcendentalism and I am not even sure what that is.

I am not sure of the order of events. And went mainly on the Jeffrey F. L. Partridge essay in explaining.

But Emerson went on to give this speach.
XXVI Speech at Banquet in Honor of Chinese Embassy (http://www.rwe.org/?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=42)


Could you give the referance of the book you read?


From what I gathered it was from the 1924 journals, but I never could find the actual quote from the journals.

bueno bob
08-22-2009, 01:44 PM
This, I think. Cheesy, yes, but I just can't stand the thought of taking it down...

Igosplut
08-22-2009, 06:15 PM
Yes, the old wagon-wheel chandelier... probably from the sixty's. I had one just like that in my office and that's when they redid that room...

I have a bunch of old shit in my house, a safe from the twenty's, old books (local) some old brass net-needles, stamp trays, old brass fish scales (weight) and two marble top tables...

ace diamond
08-23-2009, 12:56 AM
my typewriter. it is from the 1920's.
other than that, this house, the range, and the electric breaker box and a few other things in this hose came with this house when it was built in 1952. we are current trying to have our house place on the registry as a historical site.

i have some books that are from the 19th century. such as a copy of barnaby rudge by charles dickens printed in the 1880's.

standin
08-23-2009, 12:57 AM
Is this a good review of the book?
| Book Review | Law and History Review, 20.2 | The History Cooperative (http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/20.2/br_9.html)
It was the only one I could find.

VanHalener
08-23-2009, 08:21 PM
You cats have some interesting stuff around your pads. If we got together we could have a hell of a yard sale so far.

Here's my Canadian Bayonet...
http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s326/vanhalener/IMG_3569.jpg

VanHalener
08-23-2009, 08:23 PM
I was thinking it was a 1904 stamp, but it's 1907.

I am questioning the age of this now.My question is in regards to the date stamp....

Is that the date of manufacture, or just a patent date for the Ross name?
Anybody?
http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s326/vanhalener/IMG_3574.jpg

thome
08-23-2009, 09:21 PM
Antique Arms, Inc. - Ross Rifle Bayonet & Scabbard, U.S. Marked (http://www.antiquearmsinc.com/rossriflebayonet.htm)

Most patent dates are of the creation of the item to find the date of production I would research the symbols on the other side the ones in the first photo.

They are usually icons of the foundry or armory, and date, and sometimes where it was being sent to .

2/16 is prolly Feb 1916

VanHalener
08-23-2009, 10:30 PM
Antique Arms, Inc. - Ross Rifle Bayonet & Scabbard, U.S. Marked (http://www.antiquearmsinc.com/rossriflebayonet.htm)...

2/16 is prolly Feb 1916

Thanks for the link.

I was pretty sure it was 2/16/1907.

I've gorked many things with this bayonet, but I wonder how many people it has had a taste of in it's combat days. (if it saw combat)




This flag is a trophy of war that may soon be in the hands of the Smithsonian Institution...
http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s326/vanhalener/IMG_5150.jpg

WARF
08-23-2009, 10:39 PM
You cats have some interesting stuff around your pads. If we got together we could have a hell of a yard sale so far.

Here's my Canadian Bayonet...
http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s326/vanhalener/IMG_3569.jpg

Don't kill Peter Frampton!!!!

VanHalener
08-23-2009, 10:45 PM
Don't kill Peter Frampton!!!!

Hell no!

Just happened to be spinning it when I took the picture.

one of the greats...
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WARF
08-23-2009, 10:55 PM
I totally agree...

Dare I say he's a bit underated as a guitar player as well?

Little Texan
08-24-2009, 01:44 AM
These arrowheads I've found over the years in different places around the area I live in.980

VanHalener
08-24-2009, 09:22 AM
These arrowheads I've found over the years in different places around the area I live in.980

Very cool!



Running across Civil War artifacts is not uncommon in my neck of the woods. My neighbor has two unexploded mortars/cannon balls (whatever they are) that she found in the woods not 100 yards from our homes. Not long ago a man had a mortar similar to my neighbor's explode in his home in Maryland (I think they said he was drilling it to get the powder out) so now I am just waiting for those puppies to go off next door.

ZahZoo
08-24-2009, 09:40 AM
a '57 Fender Duo-Sonic

Nice!!

I have a 64 Duo Sonic. Plays and sounds great.

The oldest thing we got besides me... is some french armoire cirica 1790's. Plus some old china cabinet from the 1840's.

Hardrock69
08-24-2009, 11:47 AM
I have some half dollars from the 1850s. And a Confederate one-dollar bill.

Anonymous
08-24-2009, 02:24 PM
Nice!!

I have a 64 Duo Sonic. Plays and sounds great.

The oldest thing we got besides me... is some french armoire cirica 1790's. Plus some old china cabinet from the 1840's.

Is any one of them older than you?

Cheers! :bottle:

ZahZoo
08-24-2009, 03:22 PM
Watch yer mouth there... junior...

The Elfoid_TFS
08-24-2009, 03:40 PM
My house, the oldest part, is over 500 years old. Only a small part of it, and no doubt lots of renovation has been done. But strictly speaking....

Anonymous
08-24-2009, 04:22 PM
Watch yer mouth there... junior...

C'mon, 'tis all in good fun... grandpa. :hee:

Hey, I'll be your age someday, then someone else can make fun of me being an old fart.

Though that day is still very far away... :tongue0011:

Cheers! :bottle:

VanHalener
08-25-2009, 01:34 AM
Nice!!

I have a 64 Duo Sonic. Plays and sounds great.

The oldest thing we got besides me... is some french armoire cirica 1790's. Plus some old china cabinet from the 1840's.

Kudos on the Sonic.

Now we're talkin' years on your older items.
That's some old stuff :hitch:and that's what I'm talkin' 'bout.


OWWWWWWW!

VanHalener
08-25-2009, 01:39 AM
I have some half dollars from the 1850s. And a Confederate one-dollar bill.

I collected a lot of nice coins back in the 70's and let go of a nice collection in the 80's.

What an asshat!

I have never seen a conferate note.
That's gotta be pretty cool in and of itself.

VanHalener
08-25-2009, 01:45 AM
My house, the oldest part, is over 500 years old. Only a small part of it, and no doubt lots of renovation has been done. But strictly speaking....

Cranking Van Halen in a 500 year old house has GOT to be just like biting into a York Peppermint Patty: you get the sensation of ~Awwwww Yeah~

Panamark
08-25-2009, 06:13 AM
I was also gonna say me :)

But I do have two antique things.
A Bar ornament (the two black and white scottish terriers
advertising B&W scotch) which I've been told is over 100
years old and an old sailors accordion that looks about
400 years old... lol... (Man I should take a photo of this
thing, dunno how I even got it ??, I think a great granparent
handed it on down)

I wish I had a guitar older than me......
(or same age)

Susie Q
08-25-2009, 06:14 PM
This, I think. Cheesy, yes, but I just can't stand the thought of taking it down...

OMG!! I had the same one until some asshole threw it out on me:pullinghair:

The oldest thing I have in my home is prolly a picture of my great-grandfather in it's original frame from back about 1880-1890. I have a picture in a oval bubble frame of my Uncle Roy in his old model T Ford back in the early 1900's. I have many books some dated as far as 1870's. I also have some old architectural drawings of some buildings on the east coast as well as a couple in IL. Those are dated between 1878-1910. I have a contract for Rocky Point, NJ getting street lights put in their town. That's one of the coolest things. The architectural drawings are from the same guy who ended up being a mayor there. I love antiques and stuff made of wood. LOVE IT!!

Susie Q
08-25-2009, 06:17 PM
Very cool!



Running across Civil War artifacts is not uncommon in my neck of the woods. My neighbor has two unexploded mortars/cannon balls (whatever they are) that she found in the woods not 100 yards from our homes. Not long ago a man had a mortar similar to my neighbor's explode in his home in Maryland (I think they said he was drilling it to get the powder out) so now I am just waiting for those puppies to go off next door.

OOoOoOoooooo I love stuff like this too!! How interesting!! Love the civil war! I also have copies of love letters of my great-grandfather and great grandmother during the civil war. Great stuff!

VanHalener
11-24-2009, 09:02 AM
Check this out...

Is this 1913 coin a dime or a penny? What is your opinion? Need a better picture?

Heads
http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s326/vanhalener/IMG_4372.jpg

Tails (notice top 1/2 of letters on top of coin cut off)
http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s326/vanhalener/IMG_4370.jpg

Is it a penny that was caught in the stamping machine and received a dime face stamp? WTF?

thome
11-24-2009, 12:01 PM
A dime has always been smaller than a penny except like some english pennies I have seen.

But, we are talking US Coins here so I am going to say.....It is a counterfit that people make in thier basement, and claim that they are one in a million and garner big bucks from the uneducated as in a promise of great return =on the investment.


The mint can make mistakes and inadvertantly creat important collector items, but the odds of silver front and copper back half are highly unlikely...

I am sure you allready know these things, all I have done is state the obvious....

Drill a hole in it and make a necklace out of it..lol


P.S. I have a good book on the history and collection a grading rules of all US, coins ever produced; even the ones in personally owned non-government mints that produced legal tender coinage and there is no mention of these type things....

Owwwwwwwww!! Peace Out!

Sensible Shoes
11-24-2009, 09:45 PM
An unopened package of condoms!

I love you Warfman

Sensible Shoes
11-24-2009, 09:47 PM
My house, the oldest part, is over 500 years old. Only a small part of it, and no doubt lots of renovation has been done. But strictly speaking....

OK you win.

Sensible Shoes
11-24-2009, 09:49 PM
We have some civil war era dinnerware and silver serving pieces.

BITEYOASS
11-24-2009, 09:50 PM
That would be a tie between this 1939 Detroit Tigers program and the first edition to the Benjamin Franklin biography published in 1938 that won a pulitzer prize.

Sensible Shoes
11-24-2009, 10:04 PM
Oh yes - at a place where I was housesitting and cleaning out the place after the owner died - a frozen jar labelled

"Crepe batter - ****1989*****"

Mind you, this was in a NEW freezer, so somebody actually MOVED this botulism bomb from one freezer to the next. Unbelievable.

VanHalenFan5150
11-24-2009, 10:08 PM
Oldest thing in my house?

-Person: My dad (47)
-Food Item: Not sure
-Object: Post-WWI Distinguished Service Medal (Great-Grandpa's)
-Gun: Mauser Gewehr 98 Rifle (Sniper Model, missing scope, 1916)
-Part Of The House: Concrete slab in backyard dated 10-7-70

Sensible Shoes
11-24-2009, 10:12 PM
Oldest thing in my house?

-Person: My dad (47)
-Food Item: Not sure
-Object: Post-WWI Distinguished Service Medal (Great-Grandpa's)
-Gun: Mauser Gewehr 98 Rifle (Sniper Model, missing scope, 1916)
-Part Of The House: Concrete slab in backyard dated 10-7-70

Jesus Christ. His father is younger than I am. Somebody shoot me.

VanHalenFan5150
11-24-2009, 10:17 PM
Heh, don't mean to offend but it sounds like the rifle is too! :biggrin: :tongue0011:

I'm only kiddin'.

VanHalener
11-24-2009, 10:26 PM
Heh, don't mean to offend but it sounds like the rifle is too! :biggrin: :tongue0011:

I'm only kiddin'.

If 14 is your real age I can understand how you do not understand that most women would not find that funny.

VanHalenFan5150
11-24-2009, 10:28 PM
No, I do... And like I stated, I did not mean to offend and also, I was kidding if she happened to take offense at it.

See, I understand women don't like telling their age or weight, I know. I've been around the block a few times...

VanHalener
11-24-2009, 10:35 PM
Are you 14?

VanHalenFan5150
11-24-2009, 10:36 PM
Yes, i'm really 14.

Peter [5150] (Peter Haight) | MySpace - myspace.com/pjh5150 (http://www.myspace.com/pjh5150)

Go check it out, if you don't trust me.

I'm always told I act and look older though. I'm not a jerk butthole like most guys my age. But, whatever...

Sucker of Satan's Penis
11-24-2009, 10:39 PM
1896
ESSAYS by Ralph Waldo Emerson
First Series

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://www.rwe.org/pages/Essays.htm)

Woman, thine poetic rubbish saith truest reasons spinsters make the BEST martyrs.

VanHalener
11-24-2009, 10:40 PM
Kind of tough to have "been around the block" much at 14.

Anyway, Shoes you come to Va and I'll hook you up with my buddy Riley.
He's 49, loves Van Halen, makes great money, and an all around great guy.

Sucker of Satan's Penis
11-24-2009, 10:41 PM
Jesus Christ. His father is younger than I am. Somebody shoot me.

I'm 1300 years old. Wanna date a G-d?

VanHalener
11-24-2009, 10:44 PM
I'm 1300 years old. Wanna date a G-d?

How can you be the creator of the universe and be only 1300 years old?

sHANANIGANS!

Sensible Shoes
11-24-2009, 11:58 PM
Heh, don't mean to offend but it sounds like the rifle is too! :biggrin: :tongue0011:

I'm only kiddin'.

Well, hon, to you, I'm beyond ancient. And I don't take offense - but then again YOU were not around when Van Halen was on the stage in its original form!

Just call me Grandma, and I'll bake you cookies or some shit.

Sensible Shoes
11-25-2009, 12:00 AM
See, I understand women don't like telling their age or weight, I know. I've been around the block a few times...

Yeah on your BIG WHEEL!!!!!

:biggrin:

Sensible Shoes
11-25-2009, 12:01 AM
I'm 1300 years old. Wanna date a G-d?

No fuckin' way. Next thing I'll be on a plane heading into a building so somebody can get their 500 virgins - all of whom will be younger and hotter than I am!!!!!

FORD
11-25-2009, 02:14 AM
How can you be the creator of the universe and be only 1300 years old?

sHANANIGANS!

And for that matter, why is he pretending to be the Muslim God and using the Jewish spelling "G-d"? :biggrin:

Little Texan
11-25-2009, 02:26 AM
I'm 1300 years old. Wanna date a G-d?

Back alley cardboard box god or library computer god?

standin
11-25-2009, 02:36 AM
Woman, thine poetic rubbish saith truest reasons spinsters make the BEST martyrs.

Fuck off, Gar.
Get the teeth fixed.
BTW, had you a real health care plan ( like government provided) your doctor would have provided preventive measures so you would not get methmouth.
It is not that complicated to care for your teeth.

standin
11-25-2009, 02:41 AM
Well, hon, to you, I'm beyond ancient. And I don't take offense - but then again YOU were not around when Van Halen was on the stage in its original form!

Just call me Grandma, and I'll bake you cookies or some shit.

Fuck baking cookies .. well fuck while baking cookies... marry that loose dick.
Joking~
I am sure 51's dick is not a loose dick. ;) well when he FINALLY claims he is 18

VanHalenFan5150
11-25-2009, 08:28 AM
No fuckin' way. Next thing I'll be on a plane heading into a building so somebody can get their 500 virgins - all of whom will be younger and hotter than I am!!!!!

..Nobody said Allah was a terrorist, he's simply the supreme ruler of Muslim religion. And it's 72 virgins, by the way...

VanHalenFan5150
11-25-2009, 08:29 AM
Fuck baking cookies .. well fuck while baking cookies... marry that loose dick.
Joking~
I am sure 51's dick is not a loose dick. ;) well when he FINALLY claims he is 18

I'm seriously 14... Jesus! Go look at my Myspace page, haha. Peter [5150] (Peter Haight) | MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/pjh5150)

Sensible Shoes
11-25-2009, 09:59 AM
.. And it's 72 virgins, by the way...

Devaluation of the dollar - takes more virgins these days.

Anonymous
11-25-2009, 10:13 AM
and I'll bake you cookies or some shit.

Uh, I don't think he'd like that...

Cheers! :bottle:

VanHalenFan5150
11-26-2009, 09:19 PM
Though I heartily agree cookies made by my grandmother are always good!

standin
11-27-2009, 09:33 AM
I'm seriously 14... Jesus! Go look at my Myspace page, haha. Peter [5150] (Peter Haight) | MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/pjh5150)

Jeezz, I really apologize then.
14 and unfettered access to the Internet.
You must be sneaking off to the library.
You be extra careful
:minister:

VanHalenFan5150
11-27-2009, 09:35 AM
Nah, I don't sneak off to the library... That's downtown... Which is probably 2 or 3 miles, perhaps 4 away... My dad trusts me.

PETE'S BROTHER
11-27-2009, 09:48 AM
probably not the oldest thing, but "BIG BAMBU" album with the paper still in it is one cool relic.

chefcraig
11-27-2009, 09:57 AM
probably not the oldest thing, but "BIG BAMBU" album with the paper still in it is one cool relic.

No kidding? I still have mine as well. Albums back then often came with cool stuff. Alice Cooper was always sticking calendars or trading cards in his albums. Hell, the School's Out album folded into a desk, and the record came wrapped in a pair of panties!

VanHalenFan5150
11-27-2009, 10:38 AM
Too bad Van Halen albums didn't really come with goodies. Just shitloads of pictures. :biggrin:

BITEYOASS
11-27-2009, 10:57 AM
Too bad Van Halen albums didn't really come with goodies. Just shitloads of pictures. :biggrin:

If that's the case they should have included a bottle of jack, rolling papers, a small mirror, a rolled up $100 dollar bill, a coupon for a free porno mag and a directory showing the phone numbers & e-mail addys of town sluts across the country. :D

PETE'S BROTHER
11-27-2009, 11:05 AM
If that's the case they should have included a bottle of jack, rolling papers, a small mirror, a rolled up $100 dollar bill, a coupon for a free porno mag and a directory showing the phone numbers & e-mail addys of town sluts across the country. :D

i think i have the first four in the bar upstairs:biggrin:

chefcraig
11-27-2009, 11:12 AM
If that's the case they should have included a bottle of jack, rolling papers, a small mirror, a rolled up $100 dollar bill, a coupon for a free porno mag and a directory showing the phone numbers & e-mail addys of town sluts across the country. :D

It really was a different era. You could walk into the record store at the mall, and in addition to music you could purchase all sorts of band paraphernalia, up to and including a Pat Travers coke mirror. It conveniently had lines cut into the surface in places. :smiley-sniffer:

VanHalenFan5150
11-27-2009, 11:32 AM
It was kind of promoted and not very illegal at that point, yeah?

chefcraig
11-27-2009, 11:45 AM
It was sold with a nudge and a wink, so to speak. But it was blatantly obvious what it was to be used for. There were others, which had the "Coke" label on them (altered to read "Cocaine"), for what was also intended to be for the same use. Of course, this was before Nancy Reagan and the "Just say no to drugs" campaign, along with the cocaine death of Len Bias. Soon after, the landscape changed drastically, including the introduction of mandatory minimums for sentencing drug offenders, an appalling over-reaction that haunts casual drug users to this day.

diamondsgirl
11-27-2009, 12:24 PM
OOoOoOoooooo I love stuff like this too!! How interesting!! Love the civil war! I also have copies of love letters of my great-grandfather and great grandmother during the civil war. Great stuff!

Nice!