I don't own anything unusual but this thread is awesome.

A brand new 928 ignition and key.

A shell (not live) for the GAU-Avenger.

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My 1973 914 that I bought in 1979. :D

i have over 200 badger shaving brushes...

FWIW if you stole it you don't own it.

Posession is 9/10ths of the law.
And 'statute of limitations'
And 'finders-keepers'

Oh, I wouldn't mind giving it back. But getting caught with that in my luggage on the way to Europe would be worse than when they recently found loose ammo in my carry on. It's several hundred yrs. old, so I could dump it in the desert here and, if it were found, it would be assumed to be a European explorer.

I have a pair of Nike driving shoes built especially for Michael Schumacher.

They were built by hand; Nike would present him with a batch and he would try them all on to end up with a smaller batch that he would race in. The rejects went back to the developers at Nike to shred. These somehow missed the shredder.

It's hard to beat my dad in this department

1930's Dentist chair, fully operational including the cable driven drill:
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or his coffin, that he made for himself out of scraps to make sure we wouldn't ever pay 5k for a "box to get torched it"
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The most unusual thing I own is probably my 1985 LeCar. Bought it for $1000 after I sold my 964... found a set of 3 bolt aluminum wheels, and bolted in seats from an Audi A4

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Why would anyone want to shave a badger. That has to be a horrible job to have unless you kill it or anesthetize it.

Off the top of my head I can't think of much... a couple of street signs from when Seattle was selling the old ones off about 5 years ago for starters. A whole lot of bent valves from the 924S (car came that way)... two or three shoeboxes full of Apple ][ disks with mostly games on them. Two SC20 hard drive enclosures + four 20MB hard drives that go with. Lots of Texas license plates going back to the 1920s.

That's right up there with harvesting mink oil. Who wants to spend their day squeezing minks? They're mean little buggers.

Mother of pearl opera glasses, with case(never know when you'll need them) big chunk of
rock from one of the .......... (better not say) take a guess, and a can of beezer paint
which of course, ....leaks.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447089465.jpg
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It may not yet be on a Beezer but it's sure giving it a try! :D :D :D

Somewhere in my files I've got one of these...

https://www.fourmilab.ch/bombcalc/

from my dad. We never knew what he was working on.

my dad flew C-47s around new guinea, india and into china. he came home with a ton of souvenirs. my mom managed to sell most of them at a yard sale. saumrai swords $5 each. buy two and get a free native mask.

one thing hidden away was a box of instruments, altimeters, artificial horizons, tachs, etc he scavenged out of a downed japanese plane.



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^ that's bad ass!

My dad left me a bunch of flight instruments, but they're all common stuff, nothing exotic or valuable. (The Elgin clock would have some juice if it worked, but it don't)

My dirty mind.

Parachute reefing rings from a B53 thermonuclear bomb. Nice to hold souvenir golf balls on my office shelf.

The backpack from the W47 special atomic demolition munition (the "backpack bomb"). Holds some camping gear.

Both spent 40+ years in the field strapped to or built into nuclear weapons. They were salvage from Pantex during disassembly.

In our vault at work I have one of the mock Pu pits from the Trinity/Nagasaki weapons, from that era. I don't get to keep that one.

My wife has a WW2 patch and signed note from Leon smith, the guy on the enola gay who armed the little boy bomb over Hiroshima. She was in the last weapons-critter class that Leon presented to before his death in 2011(?).

Increasingly, not so with real ancient artifacts. Without provenance, they can be seized at auctions or if you try to export them.

Rick: If you really want to return it, contact the museum with an anonymous email account and offer ship it to their embassy.

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A goffering iron receptacle.

Ian

my parents have had a 300% scale 12 ft long acrylic (finished in shiny piano lacquer) Panther on display in their living room since the early 80s.

ive never been sure of why

A complete sword and leather tooled scabbard made and used by a "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" tribesman along with a photo of him smiling atop his camel with the sword/scabbard.

A hubcap from Tom Savini's Mercedes 240D which was used in the opening graveyard scenes from the 1989-90 Night of the Living dead re-make.

I have a mortician's vintage embalming vacuum pump.

Note the W on the end of the motor for Westinghouse. Suspect Tesla hand wound the motor.:)

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Umm, touch those terminals and you will be next across the embalming table.

Minilite Barrel
 

An original Minilite Wheels Barrel Box.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447116232.jpg

The only thing I can think of is this.
It's the starboard steering wheel for a 12 Meter America's Cup boat that raced in Fremantle Australia in 1987.

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8 Foot tall candlestick my Dad found the stick and made the candle. 80Lbs */-

Late 1880-90 Brass ships wheel working.

Late 1880-1890 Ships Compass Or Binnacle as they were called.

Cheshire Constable's hat Or Bobbi's helmet.

The most bizarre is a pint jar filled with formaldehyde with golf ball sized testicles.

They were off my favorite Black lab they were uncomfortable for him. The Vet a friend said they are some of the largest he had ever removed.

He said you keep them and scare your daughters boyfriends with them. It's exactly what I've done with them no pics. :D


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Headhunter machete from the Philippines... razor sharp.

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Surgery textbook from 1856

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My dad has a killer ship wheel he claims one of his pledge brothers stole in a fraternity prank in Philly in the mid-60s. When he/they went to return it, the bldg. has been demolished, so he kept it. It's amazing and I will have it one day.

A didgeridoo

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A carved Ivory Opium Pipe, not sure of the age. I picked it up in Penang in the 60's.
No, I never used it.

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Cool.

Thought it was an oosik at first.

Walrus wiener of bone (ivory?). Lucky mammals.

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My father in law has one of those on his bookshelf.

A block of gold ore, with gold veins clearly visible. It was obviously shaped by some human, as it is a rectangular block with all the edges and corners radiused. I have no idea how it came into my because I don't remember at any time seeing it before I unpacked a box after our last move.

Also, a nickel-iron meteorite. That one I traded for as kid, my baseball glove for a cool melted-looking and rusty rock. BTW, my dad was REALLY p!ssed off that I traded my baseball glove for a fscking ROCK, as he put it. I kept the rock, and later, after I figured out what it was, he apologized.

What we have here is a magneto from my 500 single AJS (unless someone knows better) and an aircraft instrument of which I know nothing about.

I've had both on my bench for decades. Why???????http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447180984.jpg
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My Kaiser Duece and a half. (M35A2)