Wow! It looks like something out of a book

Hi, I have almost the same trunk here! only diffirents is it has some kind of lether layering but the lock en all the metal parts are the same! with some really old tags on in it from Holland America line, did your did your great, great Grandparents came from Holland?

That is a thing of beauty!

It looks like it should have hundreds of little legs

I love this so much. Can you imagine the stories!

My mom has one almost exactly the same. It came here from England with my grandmother and her parents on a ship in the early 1900s. They are rare!

It’s a Mimic!

My Mother has a trunk like that, no idea on the origin but it's at least 100 years old.

I had one of these but mine had a curved top.

looking good though !!

Pretty and cool.

Grandmaphone

I can almost hear the "CH-CHINGGG" just looking at it 😊

Wow, that's old!

This clock was bought by one of my ancestors in London in the 1680s, survived a fire, crossed the Atlantic to Canada in the early 1900s, and crossed back last year to my home in France. It still works😁

That looks beautiful my friend :)

I have my grandmothers copy of Pinocchio.

Daguerreotypes are so fascinating.

Wine jar,Mediterranian...Jacques Cousteau once found some when diving that still contained wine. They opened it and drank a glass of Nectar from the Gods....a few minutes later it had turned into a vinegar-ish liquid due to the contact with the air..

I didn't know it was the title I was writing, I thought it was the description 😂

I made a pendant for my wife, she is a teacher - Latin, of course :-)

"So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."

nice picture

My nanna has one very simalar to this! She has slightly different handles though

The stories they could tell!

America has such a long history making quilts...waste not,want not and snippets from worn-out garments and such were turned into something wonderful...and useful..

Very pretty! I like the mix between simplicity and not simplicity I don't know the word for it though!

Normally I give people crap for refinishing antique furniture, but my grandmother bought this at the Salvation Army in 1960 and refinished it then. It suffered some water damage in storage, so I refinished it again, this time in blue, because why not.

You got my aecheologic student like.

Don´t be so modest ! some of these items are truly magnificent...

We have a pair of those too, but instead of horses, we just use them when we get stumped at Where's Waldo.

It probably was welded to the top of a nail. This was a popular prank back then when a penny had the purchasing power of about 20¢ today. Just enough to make someone bend down to pick it up.

We had one of those when I was a kid, not sure what happened to it. The oldest video game system I still have is an Atari 2600.

It plays the "Westminster Quarters" chimes :) it still works but I have stopped using it until I can get the hinge of the glass cover fixed, and the wood retouched. (Flax mat is from my second foray into flax weaving from my garden, I gave the first one away as customary)

Great piece. I do have African headrests as well in my collection of tribal art.

A friend of mine was throwing it away. It was in terrible conditions. I've had it restored and it now proudly sits in my living room!

...around 1900s

Ooh I love those masks!

The Saying goes.....A Penny For Your Thoughts....that is worth something ...

Dont get me wrong- i have fossils and such too, but i just felt like posting this one :3

Wait, what? please explain--do you mean a ghost?