And this thing, which is the last of the weird stuff at my house. Well.... except for the shrunken pygmy head, which I can't seem to find anymore. Just as well, as my wife would rather I didn't show it to guests at our house anymore. She thinks it might make us look a bit weird. Oh, and maybe back off on the scotch a bit too.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447183691.jpg

I've thought about this for a while and came to the conclusion that I do not own anything unusual.


Is that unusual?

what is the most unusual thing you own?
 

I'm boring

But I do have a bunch of ancient ceramic marbles dug up from the streets of San Francisco. 1906 earthquake stuff.

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Sent via Jedi mind trick.

A large Coors malt can (presume that is what Coors went to doing during prohibition).
A everyready battery dated 1947.
My dad's slide rule... also have some of his drafting tools... and I just found in his garage (he past away a little over a year ago) one of those rulers that fold up in 10 inch sections.
Brochures from the Mathmatica exhibit (It's a museum thing).
A few old Dayton signs that I got out of (one of) my dad's rental units (old gas station) from when my dad was remodeling and was going to throw them out (I would have grabbed the antique gas pumps but didn't have anywhere to store them).

Oh... In the refrigerator, I have a bottle of Coors Winterfest 1987.

That's a little past it's drink by date.

I have a couple klystron tubes, one resin filled and cut in half. A Hammond Glider sliding table printers saw, which I use constantly in my work ( not for printing ) and I've also got my grandfathers photo albums from the early teens in France. He served with the American / French Ambulance Corps, so there are many shots of WW1.

When I was a kid in the early 70s, my dentist had the same damned eqpt. Watching the cable was cool, but his drilling was not.

I can beat that. I have the chair, the drill and.....

the X-ray machine. :eek:.

Jake, if you need an extra belt for the drill I have about 20 of them. SmileWavy

Here's one of mine, a Roman amphora from 4th-2nd century B.C. Used to transport olives, oil, fish, etc across the Mediterranean. My uncle was a pilot in the Air Force in the early 60's stationed in Spain. He recovered it from a shipwreck off of Mallorca.

The keel of the ship had holes that ran along it so the pointed base could be placed in there and used as ballast.

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I'll let my toy speak for itself..........best Garage Sale find EVER, THANKS MOM!!! (she said with a straight face, "you're really not going to shoot the black powder cannon are you?" well duh Mom!)


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I have a piece of a missile I shot from a helicopter that hit the target it was intended to hit.

I'll find some pics.

I have an ex USAF dental air compressor in my garage, its a pretty strange unit...

I've probably got some weird stuff around if I think about it...

I just found this in my desk drawer. Fake leaves and buds from the growhouse and drying room we did on the show "Weeds". It was close to $100k in custom silk plants and buds.

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Top Gun Nitrous bottle that was in Lyn St. James' record setting Thunderbird.

Set of First Class seats from a Midwest Airlines 717

Very cool. Looks like most of them are Chinese. I've got one Chinese abacus, but several Japanese soroban. I don't have nearly the quantity or range that you have though.

I was wondering how they did that. If you were filming up in Oregon these days you could use the real thing....

Nice koto, shamisen and ruan. Are those guqin next to the shamisen? You just need an erhu to add to your collection.

compared to you guys nothing I have is unusual!

well maybe my '61 Studebaker school bus, but you guys really have some weird *****! :D

I have a WW I brass artillery shell made into a tobacco container, I will find it and post a pic.

Inside it I have a large collection of soviet pins from the 70's. Very cool.

Ha ha, you must be a guitar fanatic like me! Those are the first thing I noticed too. :D

I have an ashtray that has a small replica of an automobile tire wrapped around it (had two but an idiot friend broke one) I think it was my granddad's (he smoked cigars).

I see this in my office every day and didn't even think of it as unusual, but it is.

It a bas-relief carving commemorating the arrival of the first tractor in a communist China village.

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Hah! That could just as easily be from 1941 or 1986!

I do have the erhu; just around the corner...

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I've got nothing but a pair of brass knuckles. Never been used.

I have a WW I brass artillery shell made into a tobacco container, I will find it and post a pic.

Inside it I have a large collection of soviet pins from the 70's. Very cool.


Wow, small world! I also have the very same thing. ,It has a french coin where the primer goes:)
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This was a white elephant gift I got for christmas last year. A little cast iron mouse bolted to a rock.

Who the hell would try and market something like this? Worse still, why do I like it?

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Ok, long story involving an agency that I worked for, client that couldn't pay in cash and a Christmas party.

My 70s era original Darth Vader bong.... I am thinking of sleazbaying it - any idea of where the bidding should start?http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447619078.jpg

2 oz

top shelf? purple fire aha?

I don't smoke - but I would take $600 for it... smile...

I have never seen another one, I would imagine Lucas came down hard and fast on the manufacturer and forced them to destroy them.

Pawn Stars, last week, $20. That guy was also looking for the big bucks. I think he took it home.

Ok 3 things I think are odd. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447628512.jpg
This I believe is a scrimshaw river boat. My fathers from WW2http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447628596.jpg
Breech loading Edward Manard rifle from civil war era. Found in my mother in laws basement. She said it came with the house. Also was with a Springfield 30/40 Craig rifle. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447628814.jpg
And last a 1937 unopened bottle of kahlua that a neighbor brought over at a block party to make mudslides with. I refused to open it and she told me to keep it. Any worth to any of these???

Von, you are my superhero. Is it a real Zamboni or home made? Pics?

Photo of my great-grandfather as a child.
(I'm in my 40's)

That looks decent... I'd start at $200 and see what happens.

That's a buck that a cobbler uses to make / nail the soles onto shoes with... but I'm guessing you already know that...

-C

^ The actual name is a "last"

Real skeleton. (from the Med student days)

Couple of 18" Propellers

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