what is the most unusual thing you own?

[sammyg2]

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


Is that unusual?

[vash]

I'm boring

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




Sent via Jedi mind trick.

[scottmandue]

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).

[cashflyer]

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

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by cashflyer

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

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

[cashflyer]

I'm waiting for it to reach 30, then gifting it to some sucker in the PPOT gift exchange.

[Charles Freeborn]

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.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by notfarnow

It's hard to beat my dad in this department

1930's Dentist chair, fully operational including the cable driven drill:

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.

[1990C4S]

Originally Posted by notfarnow

It's hard to beat my dad in this department

1930's Dentist chair, fully operational including the cable driven drill:

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

the X-ray machine. .

[craigster59]

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

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.

[Rusty Heap]

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!)

[Seahawk]

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.

[porsche4life]

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...

[craigster59]

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.

[Embraer]

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

Set of First Class seats from a Midwest Airlines 717

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

My Abacus collection

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.

[Charles Freeborn]

Originally Posted by craigster59

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.

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

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

My Abacus collection

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

[Rufblackbird]

compared to you guys nothing I have is unusual!

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

[1990C4S]

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.