what is the most unusual thing you own?
 

What s the weirdest, unusual thing that you own. I have some stuff that's defiantly not mainstream and was wondering how it compares to your collections or pieces.

Finn

A few dead people in my basement...

might have to be..
the mop with a sword built into the handle.
Or the sword with a functioning cap and ball pistol attached to the guard.
maybe the Theremin.
or the corpse that sits in my rocking chair.

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I must have had serious jet lag when I bought this in Venice the day after 9/11.

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Bevo

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A real human skull I lifted from a museum when I was really immortal and fearless.

Thats some bad juju, man.

Gus.

Well..., Gus owns me.

Rick! That's funny. I can't imagine my skull one day ending in some guy's garage!

I have a bunch of bear skulls - probably pretty common in a hunting household and the bears probably could imagine that, if they were having the cognitive ability.

The only true collectors item that's not super common that we have is a nice early 20th century black forest kuckoo clock. In itself a great family heirloom, but what makes it special is a manufacturing error. It literally strikes 13 instead of 1 o clock. It comes from a family branch that had a store. I am sure they ended up with it because it was a customer return ...

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So that's a dawg's expression when thinking wtf :D

I used to have a very realistic fake skull that I had stashed in a nook in the basement of my 200 YO house. It was not obvious, but it was relatively easy to ''discover''.

A lot of people thought that they were informing me of a shocking and important find.

It was really fun, until one day my wife got rid of it.

Women. Can't live with them,
Can't stash their empty skulls in your basement.

Several boxes of really neat and diverse Indian artifacts that were found individually by my wife's Grandpa while working his farm here in Ohio. It would be interesting to know the value, but it truly doesn't matter, we'll never sell them, and will hand them down to our grandchildren someday.

A 30ish inch Chinese gong. Everyone should have one!

Probably the copper bee smoker.
It was given to me 42 years ago after I helped a guy move. I thought I might give it to my brother in law. It was grungy and one of the bellows boards was cracked, so I started to clean it up and realized it was made of copper instead of the usual steel. I made a new bellows board for it and it sits on a shelf.
I have never kept bees.

Best
Les

Many unusual things.

Most were, at one time, legal.

I did keep some of my grandmothers old wigs for scaring small children (my own).

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

Good God, I misread "gong"!

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I could be wrong but it looks Spanish. It has that demented look right before it charges you....

I like it.

Hmm, the most unusual thing that I own. Well, we, the missus and I have a crystal ball. It's made of quartz crystal and about the size of a basket ball.

I have a very, VERY large light bulb that was used by Japanese fishermen to fish at night.

I probably have some other odd stuff from Japan roaming around.

The missus has a pig skull and a fake, educational, anatomical female pelvic bone.

Umm... this is going to take some thought.
I have a B-50 (R-4360) exhaust valve on my desk. Somewhere I have the rotor out of an experimental Wankel engine GM was working on when I worked there. I'm not sure if they are the MOST unusual though. I'm going to have to think about this....

My wife would say me.

How about a Granite Machinists Straightedge, a Heathkit robot from the 80's, collection of mad magazines 50's-70's......

A pair of Lamborghini Countach intake manifolds.

A parking meter in my living room.

A rotary dial pay phone in the kitchen.

Traffic signal in the garage.

At first I though, "Ha.. it will be easy to freak them out with some of the weird s**t I own." So I sat here and pondered a while and am coming up with nothing. Nothing I own is really outlandishly weird, or even terribly unusual.

I have a couple of CH-53 refueling nozzles that I use for bookends in my office. I guess not everyone has that, but it's not really as interesting as having Hitler's right pinky finger in a mason jar, or a necklace made of ears.

edit:
yeti's post reminded me... I have a blinking orange light from a road construction sign. Picked it up in the 80s when I was in school, and still have it for some reason.

My Father in Law. An early achiever, graduated from University of Chicago and MIT by the age of 21. He went directly to work in the space program and Died of cancer at 55

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A set of Water Buffalo horns.

I forgot, I got a couple of blinkys and a barrel down in the basement too. :D

Does everybody steal those things while in college?
I've got a few tucked away somewhere.

I snagged the name plate thingy off the desk of the superintendent of our school systems when I was in high school. I still have it. It's been 50 years. I was leaving gym class when I was called into his office so he could chew my ass about something (again). He got called out of the office for a second and I grabbed the name thing and shoved it in my gym bag. That'll teach him to f@&k with me. :D

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An ancient Egyptian Ba statue . . . or a good fake? An expert at the British Museum that I communicated with said: "This appears to be the upper part of a ba statue. These are mostly known from the Saite periods onwards (i.e. after 660 BC), with examples known from Graeco-Roman Egypt as well. Few are provenanced, so our knowledge of their original context is relatively limited: some come from coffins, while others adorned stelae."

Ian

My great uncles Two glass eyes, one normal. And one is blood shot for when he was drinking.
I wonder where they are, I had a lot of fun with them in school.

I'd bet he searched high and low for that thing.... lol

I have a 3 pound chunk of Labradorite on my desk. My local Goodwill had this thing in their glass case priced at $80. I just happened to find it the night before $1 day and saw that it had been there long enough that it would cost $1 the next morning. I went back and picked it up. Not sure why it fascinated me... I think it's cool how it glows, seemingly from within, when the light hits it just right.

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Far left, a cannon ball I stubbed by toe on when I lived in Newport - found buried halfway in the sand off Ruggles Ave, next is a chunk of race track from Texas Motor Speedway I got it when they had to bring the banks down a few degrees after guys were passing out, a Blackbird creamer, in front of the creamer is a portable ashtray, next to the creamer is a sample of a composite that I am not supposed to have, and lastly business rubber stamps. I have no idea why I have these other than I thought they were too cool to throw out!


I guess these items would be considered unusual.

-a raw egg in a protective box that was a science project from 6th grade, ca. 1986. Rediscovered it when I was about 30, and by then it was so old I *couldn't* get rid of it, so I didn't :) Almost 30 years old now.

-a homemade Venezuelan flag that I made in Kindergarten or 1st grade (I'm from Caracas).

-a key tag that suggests that it is from a stateroom on the Titanic. I have no idea if it is real or not, nor any idea how such a thing came into my dad's possession.

I left mine at school, but still have a couple of milk crates SmileWavy

A high-res photo of my great grandfather as a small child on his dads lap.
I'm in my forties. Do the math.

I have a hood ornament off a '69 Lamborghini Miura.

I have the decklid scripts from a Bizzarrini.

I also have a piece of Mars rock. No, seriously.

My Abacus collection

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