Apparently someone nicked it from a church donkey's years ago.

Wow that's stunning

... possibly the Coolest thing, besides my dog, in my house right now.

Nice!! My parents and I used to collect old Soviet art when we still lived in the Motherland. Sadly, we couldn’t take most of it when we fled, but we still have a few old ones :)

I would be obsessed with it too!

Bet there's quite a story

What a lovely thought

Sorry, the hose was built in 1929. It's the oldest thing.

Love this. I lived near Petrified Forest in AZ. We had two or three petrified trees on our property that were broken up and I took a bunch with me when we moved.

Those are amazing! Do you happen to work in the archeology field or is this a hobby?

Absolutely beautiful!

I have that exact pen in a different color!

Cute

I'm so interested in the ' name tag' . I would have loved to ask what it meant to your great grandmother

While I also have some fossils this thing is just too cool not to share!

PURR-fect!

Easy to find fossils in Washington.... We elect them to office...

From my previous post. Assuming Peter Wedel is the father of Dorothy, who married Lou Campbell. I searched for a bit years ago to find any more information or living relatives (maybe a decade) to no avail, and then ended up putting these in the safe and forgot about them until seeing this post. Maybe some free time and I will search again. Or if any Pandas want to look, maybe you can find some clues. This is all that I found in that desk, other than a small slip of paper from Rosalie, stating that Dortha and Lou wed on Christmas day 1918.

Found this behind an old desk when cleaning out an empty house. Lou and his beloved Dortha (Dorothy) were married that same year on Christmas day at Chase Kansas. They had a daughter Rosalie, who gave birth at 16 at St Rose Hospital in Great Bend Kansas IMG_4348-6...20a494.jpg