Do you own a piece of history? Please share your items & accounts

[Johnny McCrae]

I saw an " American Pickers" episode where they restored the original Aerosmith 1st. tour van.
Pretty cool, piece of Rock history.

That sure looks like Dad's truck. It shows the sliding doors. It only had one seat and any passengers sat on a small stool.

[Major 2]

It is a popular "make" for Resto or Rat Rods

One was done on "Iron Restorations" and another for a "Turnin Rust" episode.

[JimCunn]

First Edition, First Printing of Mrs. Behn's Plays and Novels, dated 1702.
Been in my family for at least 160 years.

[Russ T Chambers]

Ran across this one today. Everything in it is pre 1950 including me (though at the time I might have been floating around in my mom's tummy).  Corncob pipe in my left hand trying to clean Casey's ear.  My Dad's Stanley hammer in my right looking for anything looking like a nail
Oh, and I almost missed it. In the lower left hand corner is the grey and white back of Butch my cat.

[Major 2]

Here is a proud piece in my humble collection.

It is a limited copy of the Lt. George Dixon $20 GOLD piece.
The coin he carried at Shiloh saved his life, when it took the brunt and deflected a 58 Cal. mini ball that would have killed him.
The coin was inscribed with "My Life Preserver"... and was found in the remains of Lt. Dixon when the Huntley was raised.
I was present as a guest at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston.
(Production Designer for the Huntley Film)

I also attended the April 17, 2004, when the remains of the crew were laid to rest at Magnolia Cemetery, in Charleston.

If you haven't seen the Huntly and the Museum I highly recommend it.

[Coffinmaker]

Well 

I don't know if this counts, however, when I was still working as a Cabinet Maker, I lurked the Antique Tool shows east of the Rockies.  I wound up with a really good selection of "Hollows and rounds" (hand planes), complete Chisel Sets and Stanley Planes to include two complete Stanley 45 Multi-Planes.  I still use all of them for small personal projects.

[Froogal]

Those antique hand planes are very interesting. I'm not really into such things but I used to watch "The Wood Right" on PBS, and he really knew how to use them.

[Lucky R. K.]

If you haven't seen the Huntly and the Museum I highly recommend it.

We have had the pleasure of visiting the Museum on a couple of occasions. It would be worth your time to see it. There are a lot of interesting attractions in Charleston.
Lucky 

[Major 2]

A Victorian English Immigrant Metal Steamer Trunk.
Circa 1890's-1901, they traveled the World. I've seen them on eBay offered in England and Australia. 


One of my Carpenter crew's daughter worked at a Disney gift shop.
This trunk was some kind of display prop piece, I think they had Disney Toy Story stuffed characters on it.
Anyway, we were revamping the entire store, and this was about to be thrown away 

I asked for and saved it  obviously they did not know what it was.

The latch was broken, and key was missing, but I was able to repair it
The trunk got some TLC, I think it's very cool old trunk.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I saved this from an old garage that had roof issues about 20 years ago.
This is the charter for the local Grange, which has not been active at least for 35 years.

BTW, we are going to a dance tonight at the Greenville Grange Hall.

Slim

[River City John]

1932 date   that's cool especially as you have ties to the local geography and history.

Thanks for sharing, Slim.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I am assuming my better-half's ancestors were involved in it.

Slim

[Johnny McCrae]

This ain't history now but it may be in fifty years, especially if everything goes electric. Harley-Davidson just came out with a bike called the 2024 HYDRA-GLIDE REVIVAL.
https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/en/motorcycles/hydra-glide-revival.html
In my humble opinion, this is what a Harley should look like. I'd buy one in a heartbeat if I won the lottery. This one is priced at $25,999. As I remember, when Harley-Davidson introduced the Hydra-Glide in 1949, it was priced under $1000.