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Location: Finally the house is done and we are in Port St. Lucie!
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A German stereo that has a turn table on one side and a reel-to-reel tape machine on the other. The radio itself (in the center section) has the different European cities listed instead of numbers such as London, Frankfurt, Monaco etc...
I really need to have someone look at it to see if it can be operational again. It belonged to my late parents and brings back wonderful memories of them using it.
I also have a German coo-coo clock but I don't know the age of that one either.
We have a Civil War era chest of drawers that supposedly came out of General Robert E Lees home. I kinda doubt it but its been passed down thru the family for generations. The hardware on it is hand made and dated 1835. Kind of a neat old chest. Then I also have an 1850's piano lamp. That's an oil lamp that is extendable up to 9 feet in height. Otherwise, it looks like a kerosene floor lamp when all the way down. Has a iron decorative base with brass fittings. It's a Bradley and Hubbard lamp. It has the "easy lite" feature and the silica glass chimney. Looks similar to this one but this one is missing the chimney and globe:
I have some pieces of granite that are 1.5 billion years old, some tube worm and crinoid fossils from the Pennsylvanian epoch, about 300 million years ago, an arrowhead that is likely at least a couple hundred years old though possibly as much as a thousand+, and several books from the late 1800s.
That's about it. None of my common household goods are very old. Some turn of the century silverware, a 1930s rocking chair, Some late 19th/early 20th century woodworking tools...
I really went thru the whole apartment, thinking what is the oldest thing here?
It has to be this little table that was my grandmothers, and originally was her sisters, this goes back to 1940's I'm thinking...
I had re finished it myself, and posted it on "what are you working on now", but this is the oldest thing I have in my apartment.
Besides me?
There is some doubt about the Japanese screen my mother got from her sister. Appraiser says it is 1950 ish, my cousin insisted his mother never bought Japanese department store junk and it is really old.
I really went thru the whole apartment, thinking what is the oldest thing here?
It has to be this little table that was my grandmothers, and originally was her sisters, this goes back to 1940's I'm thinking...
I had re finished it myself, and posted it on "what are you working on now", but this is the oldest thing I have in my apartment.
A book of poetry excerpts my gg-grandmother wrote out by hand sometime in the 1860s.
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