what is the most unusual thing you own?

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

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

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

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).

[wdfifteen]

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.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

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.

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

[Tidybuoy]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

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

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

[A930Rocket]

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

[Steve F]

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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[herr_oberst]

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?

[foxpaws]

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?

[Scuba Steve]

2 oz

[foxpaws]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

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.

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by foxpaws

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.

[86 ssinit]

Ok 3 things I think are odd.
This I believe is a scrimshaw river boat. My fathers from WW2
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.
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???

[NeedSpace]

Originally Posted by vonsmog

4 Unimogs and one time a Zamboni for the ice rink.

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

[john70t]

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

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by foxpaws

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?

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

[Charles Freeborn]

Originally Posted by yellowperil

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.

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

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by Charles Freeborn

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"

[aap1966]

Real skeleton. (from the Med student days)

[JeremyD]

Couple of 18" Propellers

[Jim Horton]

6' long slide ruler

Electronic test equipment liberated from the Japanese Navy docks by sailor in the first wave of the
US occupation fleet in 1945