Do you own something from the 19th century?

[Swede]

I have a couple of coins from then,but that is it.

[struggle4progress]

1. My genes

[Swede]

2. They must be pretty faded.

:spank:

[struggle4progress]

21. You are perhaps meaning to say "feted"? Or maybe "fated"?

Spelling around hear sux

[Ptah]

3. This iron, made by my great-grandfather, circa 1870.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. My house, built in 1882.

A chest of drawers, a rocking chair, a locket that belonged to a great-great aunt, a bunch of photographs, some dishes, and a painting from about 1815 of some ancestor. There may be some other things but I can't think of them right now.

[cynatnite]

5. I have a couple of books. n/t

[frogmarch]

6. Books, lithographs, photos

and handwritten letters written by my grandfather to his sister in the 1870s.

I love browsing through the antiquarian book section on Ebay. I just bought a leather bound 2-volume illustrated set of Longfellow's poetry for one of my sons, who really likes old books.

[deutsey]

7. Yes...a copy of Roughing It by Mark Twain from the 1870s

It's not in the greatest shape, but it's one of my prized possessions.

[nuxvomica]

8. A two-volume history of the world, with illustrations and color maps

Copyright is 1887 but it contains additional material up to 1891. The full title is A History of the World with All Its Great Sensations Together with Its Mighty and Decisive Battles and the Rise and Fall of Its Nations from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. It's in remarkably good condition.

[Brickbat]

9. Books, Civil War stuff, some trinkets.

[LaurenG]

10. I have a cow bell and candle holder from around 1850 it was made by

my ggg grandfather. He was a wagon maker who was born in 1813, he lived up the road a bit from where I live now.

[Moondog]

11. Lithos, water colors, coins, postage stamps and ... drum roll, please

a collection of Royal Doulton tobacco jars. (Tobacco jars being what the English call pipe tobacco humidors.) I lived in England for several years, in the early through mid-80s. Doulton is a ceramics manufacturer there, and back in the Victorian era, particularly, Doulton (which earned a royal warrant, thus the Royal in their name) created a number of very nice tobacco jars of various sorts. The hard part is finding them with an intact lid, and the ceramic press (a sort of disk with handle that you could soak in water to keep the tobacco moist, and which also weighted it down within the jar) all in one piece. Anyway, for some reason I liked them, and began collecting them. Fireplace tiles too, but that is something else altogether, and the tobacco jars are far more enjoyable to enjoy visually.

[Xipe Totec]

12. Yes. My house was built in 1880 nt

[Aristus]

13. A book of farm folk songs, published in 1885. A first edition.

Considering the subject matter, I don't imagine that there were too many subsequent editions.

[femmocrat]

14. Some books and a letter opener made from a bobbin from a New England textile mill.

My husband is a part-time antiques seller, so I'm sure there is other stuff in this house from the 1800s.

[dimbear]

15. The rosewood desk this computer sits on was originally a

reed organ. It's from about 1890 and came around the Horn.

[HEyHEY]

16. I do actually, a copper kettle

Like this, but also with an aparatis to hang it from while boiling water. I think my family brought it over from Scotland back in the day. I ended up with it by default cause as a Kid I was so fascinated by it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. That's really beautiful, my dear HEyHEY...

It's a treasure for sure!

:hi:

[HEyHEY]

18. One of these days I'll take it to an expert and get the lowdown

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Good idea.

[WolverineDG]

20. I own something from the 18th century

a snuff box my ancestor "found" on a British soldier during the Revolution.

dg

[Angry Dragon]

22. I used to own a wood embalming table

[guitar man]

23. One of these

Trapdoor Springfield, .45-70 cal. Circa 1873

[RushIsRot]

24. I have a first edition of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, 1854

[hyphenate]

25. Some books

a few coins, and my mom's family bible which is so frail, you really can't touch it as the pages are so brittle.

[trackfan]

26. I have a few things - some books, coins, stamps, and such.

My wife has a bit more, including some furniture, and some papers and a portrait of her great-great-great-grandfather, who was on the dais with Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address. He designed the cemetery.

[Brother Buzz]

27. Proof Staff

My son working the mill stone at the grist mill. This proof staff, inherited by my grandfather, was used in this grist mill between 1861 and 1898 by his grandfather (don't know the actual age of the tool). The mill is a State park today and they will ultimately be gifted the proof staff for their exhibit room.

[LeftishBrit]

28. Yes. I collect old children's books..

including a number from the 19th century.

A lot of them have written inscriptions in them from the people who gave them to the children. E.g. I was just looking at 'Blind Amos and His Velvet Principles' by the Reverend Paxton Hood. It contains the inscription 'Presented to Thomas Jarvis as a birthday gift in the year 1871 by his friend Edward Sessions with sincere desires that he may be preserved in what is good and from what is evil'.

It's a sobering thought that all these young recipients must be long dead by now.

[spinbaby]

29. I was going to say yes

We have a lot of antiques around the house. But looking around, everything seems to be early 20th century. The oldest I can spot without actually leaving the couch are a paperweight marked 1902 and a chestnut-and-poplar china cupboard that might possibly be late 19th century but probably isn't.

[doc03]

30. A violin n/t

[whistler162]

31. A tobacco card of General Grant from

1868, postmarked Fenruary 8th if 1868, and numerous books including a copy of WT Sherman's autobiography.

[unpossibles]

32. I used to own half a house from then

but... not any more. :/

[Deep13]

33. some books nt

[krispos42]

34. Yes.

Somewhere I have a bullet I bought at Gettysburg that was from the battle, so that's 1863. I bought it in 2000.


That might be it. I have a 1903 penny, a copy of "Tom Swift and his Air Ship" from 1910, and somewhere I have a car-repair manual from... 1912? and a hymnal from about the same time.

[applegrove]

35. I have a gold necklace that has fake gemstones in it. I never wear it because

I don't like gold. But it means the world to me because my grandmother passed it down to me when I was a kid.

[csziggy]

36. Some antique furniture, a Bible owned by the ggggrandmother I was named for

A small simple sampler made by a relative (we're not sure of the exact relationship since we have yet to locate her on the family tree), a few books. I also have a small cabinet that my greatgrandfather made - it's less than 12x12" with several small drawers that have wood inlay on the fronts. Woodworking was a hobby of his and my family has several thing he made, including a fretwork clock.

My parents have a lot of things inherited from family that are nineteenth century - the doctor's license signed by Abraham Lincoln for a great-great uncle, a letter from the brother of the above ggggrandmother written to her in 1832, a series of letters written to another ggggrandmother from her son who ran away from home in 1853 to find his fortune in the Australian gold rush - those include letters written on the ship and sent back when they passed other ships mid-ocean as well as letters written over the following twenty years as he moved around Australia and eventually moved to New Zealand.

They have business and household ledgers from various ancestors, books, odd bits of furniture, knick-knacks and household goods. I come from a long line of pack rats and accumulators. We're a little too organized to be true hoarders, though it can seem to threaten individuals every so often!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

37. Lots of stuff.

My house is a Gothic Revival bungalow. I don't know when it was built but the oldest deed I have for the property is dated 1882, and is for over 500 acres, which was probably the entire town at the time. Now the city is only 2 square miles. There are 640 acres in a square mile. The part I own is now down to two acres. My mother told me that the town was platted from my house. Don't know if that is true but it's plausible.

The oldest item I've found is a land grant from The Republic of Texas, dated 1845, for Houston County (where I live), signed by the last President of the Republic of Texas, Anson Jones, and it still has the wax seal and ribbon on it. I found it in a steel box of old handwritten deeds. It was folded up, and browner than the other documents (it's on parchment I guess).

I found a newspaper that mentioned "the recent unpleasantness at Whitechapel".
I rack my brains about Whitechapel and realize that's the hood that Jack the Ripper worked in.
Date: 1882.


Old stuff? We got it. Five or six households of packrats back to the grandparents, and grandma outlived three husbands. And of course they couldn't throw anything away since they all lived through the Depression. Took me six years to clean this place up enough to move in, sell, throw away, give away stuff.

And I still don't know what's in the attic!! EEEYAAUGGHH!!

(Insert picture of Mother Bates here.)

[BlueIris]

38. I think I have a coin that dates from the 1890s.

Other than that the oldest things I own are two rings from the '30s.

[mulsh]

39. A book "The Ways of Women, Physical, Moral,

and Intellectual Relations" by J.V.C. Smith, M.D, published in 1875. It has 33 chapters and is chock full of all sorts of progressive ideas. It covers basic physiology and health issues in cluding preventing pregnancy. I has a couple of chapter on the importance of educating women. When I read it years ago I was impressed at how contemporary the information seemed.

I have lots of other stuff from the 19th century, furniture, a couple of musical instruments, even some clothes. But "The Ways of Women" is the real stand out item.