The oldest thing in the house

[VanHalener]

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]

a '57 Fender Duo-Sonic

[chefcraig]

Me.

[VanHalener]

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]

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]

1896
ESSAYS by Ralph Waldo Emerson
First Series

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Candy Girl]

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]

Personally? I have 2 Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank eagle banks from the 50's that inherited.

[twonabomber]

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]

An unopened package of condoms!

[standin]

Chan,
I looked and I referanced and this is what I found

Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article

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

to this
Moyers on Democracy - Google Books


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


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]

This, I think. Cheesy, yes, but I just can't stand the thought of taking it down...

[Igosplut]

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]

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]

Is this a good review of the book?
| Book Review | Law and History Review, 20.2 | The History Cooperative
It was the only one I could find.