Historical Antiques

Swinging through Nebraska and Missouri last summer, I picked up a couple of antique documents that inspired me to decorate a whole wall. Almost went to the internet, but decided that a few hour's work there wouldn't be anywhere near as fulfilling as finding things on my own, and in person.

Saturday, I took my wife to a couple of antique malls in a neighboring city (in Montana, they're more than an hour away). I found a campaign card for Gen Garfield's presidential run in 1880 and added it to the wall. My goal is to get something for each "R" president.

Very cool! I'd like to see some pictures!

P-p-p-pictures? I haven't even figured out how to put my "portrait" on here!

Don't worry about it took months for me to do it. I figured it was easier to upload to photobucket and insert a link to point to it.

joecool wrote:P-p-p-pictures? I haven't even figured out how to put my "portrait" on here!

 Nice! I like Photobucket for pictures that you want to post on here. Just create an account with them, and upload whatever you want to post. Then get the "forum code" for the image you want to post and paste it in to your message.

As far as your avatar goes, I crop the image to what you want to show. Then process it through an image resizer. I have one downloaded on both my laptop and my phone. I set the resizer to the 170x170 limit imposed by the website and there you go! Then paste the image code in.

Easy for you to say. My palm pilot is still a piece of paper that comes out of my pocket in 1.3 seconds.

Palm pilots...people still use them...?

good one!  

I'm setting up a summer vacation in Boston for my wife and I, hopefully for this coming year. The place has to be crammed with colonial antiques. I enjoy watching Pawn Stars for all the historical items brought in. So many times, I have wanted to outbid Rick for stuff on the show.

I love history!
I really like old maps

ccm2361 wrote:I love history!
I really like old maps

The more reason to take your outpost towards FCF.... even if you can't always go the official events because of the mixed genders. You guys could hold your own historical camps.

that is true we could do that  
it would be harder for me having no FCF experience but not impossible.

Actually, Phillip brings up a good point.  You could do the FCF training locally, and they allow girls/women at regional Rendevous's and NMLA events.  

Also Michigan, Ohio, and points east have some historical homes, Teritorial Capitals, etc, that the kids could visit while in their Period Attire.

Chis, you got our experience to help you with FCF. Claymore, great idea using secular historical events to do FCF. That could be a missions field for your outpost too. Doesn't Simeon do regular events too?

It's worth a thought -- if I ever get caught up on this "Castle" that I've been building for the past 4 years.

You may find FCF-appropriate treasures in your own back yard.

During the war of 1812, there was a U.S. Fort constructed at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, because the Wisconsin/Fox Rivers controlled passage from the Great Lakes to Saint Louis & New Orleans.

There was a battle fought there in 1814, in which the British took control of the fort.

Many people didn't believe that Wisconsin had any history, much prior to the Civil War.

I love my wife! For my birthday, she got me a 1945 US Navy sextant, along with its storage case. Although I don't go back that far, this is the exact model I used to navigate with. I'm itching to use it tonight, if the snow/clouds clear up. And oh yeah, I'll have to level all the mountains in order to get an accurate horizon.

Claymore wrote:

joecool wrote:............... a 1945 US Navy sextant, along with its storage case. Although I don't go back that far, this is the exact model I used to navigate with.....

(And you scoff at me knowing fist-operated Morse Code.)

I'm planning on using it as a prop in my Veteran's Day talk to the students next week. The sextant has a mirror on an adjustable arm that brings the sun down to the horizon, which helps you to figure out your geographical position. The Son came down to earth to help us with our spiritual position.

I have two uncompleted sets of Lincoln pennies that my Dad passed on to me. I was looking at them a few days ago and my wife said, "It's time to finish them." We just got back from a coin shop in town and now the sets are 99.5% complete. All I need are two 1909 S-VDB pennies. The shop owner said that he gets his hands on two each year, but his waiting list averages 8 buyers.

Anybody out there got 1 or 2 to sell?

Back from a long trip. So busy with the grandkids that I only had time to stop in one antique store. Bought genuine WW2 Navy binoculars, just like the ones I held for a quarter century. Forgot how heavy they were.

For Christmas, my older son gave me a 3rd century AD coin showing a Roman emperor. He happened to see it in an antique store. At first, it had me thinking I should collect a coin with every emperor's bust on it. Now I'm thinking of....

- Collecting a coin from every century, or
- Collecting OT/NT coins

Anybody have any experience here? Which would be less frustrating?

After a very long delay, my nephew is finally going to finish it. I gave him two US pennies from 1864 so he could make a display that I can put on the wall. This coin was the first to have "In God We Trust." Means a lot to me.

joecool wrote:For Christmas, my older son gave me a 3rd century AD coin showing a Roman emperor. He happened to see it in an antique store. At first, it had me thinking I should collect a coin with every emperor's bust on it. Now I'm thinking of....

- Collecting a coin from every century, or
- Collecting OT/NT coins

Anybody have any experience here? Which would be less frustrating?  

Many Roman coins can be found for a very reasonable price. I have purchased mine from Ebay. You can actually get them for about $3.00 each, if you purchase them in lots of 10 or more coins, and are willing to clean them up, yourself. Of course, they will all be used, and will have wear, just like old pennies and dimes from 75 years ago.

A couple of years ago, I bought a bunch of coins on Ebay, cleaned them, put them into dime-sized plastic holders, and printed a little bible verse and gave them to the Rangers for Christmas. Interestingly, one of the coins was a nasty little black thing, rather than being the dull bronze, like the other coins. When I cleaned it up, I found that it was actually a SILVER DENARIUS, and was worth about $40.00. I offered it to our Pastor as a Christmas present, which he happily accepted.

Also in the bunch, were a few "widow's mites". These are tiny, thin bronze coins, about 1/4 the size of a dime. I have used these to tell the class the story of Jesus chastising the Pharisees for mocking the contributions of a poor person.

When we see movies of Jesus taking the Denarius and saying, "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's...", they show him with a coin about the size of a silver dollar. A silver Denarius was, actually, about the size of a dime.

Thanks for the above info, Claymore.

Hey, for you guys out there who are stumped trying to think of something unique for your wife's birthday or anniversary, read on. Go to www.antiquebible.com. There are extremely old Bibles that can cost up to $8000. But, you might be a bit thrifty, like me. I found a single page that contains her favorite Proverbs passage on it. For only $85, she will receive something that is 474 years old. You can put something like it in a Wal-Mart $10 frame, or opt for a more expensive custom frame. Either way, you can end up basking in her heart-felt appreciation and admiration of your wisdom.