Ancient artefacts

[floo]

I have a couple of artefacts from my childhood home. One is a pew from a monastery sale in 1952, when I was two. It appears to be quite old, possibly Tudor, judging by the King's head carved on the back of it. 

The other is a very old rusty key, which is handmade, and looks a good few centuries old. Sadly I have no information as to its provenance. I used tease my grandchildren, when they were younger, that it was the key which the Minstrel Blondel, an ancestor of ours, used to release King Richard the Lionheart from his Austrian prison. My childhood home was built on the foundations of Blondel's house.

Does anyone else have any very old artefacts?

[Walter]

I have a couple of artefacts from my childhood home. One is a pew from a monastery sale in 1952, when I was two. It appears to be quite old, possibly Tudor, judging by the King's head carved on the back of it. 

The other is a very old rusty key, which is handmade, and looks a good few centuries old. Sadly I have no information as to its provenance. I used tease my grandchildren, when they were younger, that it was the key which the Minstrel Blondel, an ancestor of ours, used to release King Richard the Lionheart from his Austrian prison. My childhood home was built on the foundations of Blondel's house.

Does anyone else have any very old artefacts?

interesting,
I have nothing like that but as a kid I once found  a dagger in the street (OF ALL PLACES) and hid it away for years .
Some years later I re-discovered it and took it to a military historian . It turned out to be an S.A.S. Dagger issued in the North Africa campaign in WW2
Why it was in the street of a council estate I have no idea .

[Walter]

interesting,
I have nothing like that but as a kid I once found  a dagger in the street (OF ALL PLACES) and hid it away for years .
Some years later I re-discovered it and took it to a military historian . It turned out to be an S.A.S. Dagger issued in the North Africa campaign in WW2
Why it was in the street of a council estate I have no idea .

http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mU0qlCa3GHq8OJ2S93ulC5Q.jpg

it looked very similar to this

[Harrowby Hall]

interesting,
I have nothing like that but as a kid I once found  a dagger in the street (OF ALL PLACES) and hid it away for years .
Some years later I re-discovered it and took it to a military historian . It turned out to be an S.A.S. Dagger issued in the North Africa campaign in WW2
Why it was in the street of a council estate I have no idea .

I heard a story, once, that the straps - used as support by standing passengers - disappeared from tube trains on a particular line during WW2. It seems they made excellent coshes and were issued to SAS troops for use in North Africa.

I don't suppose there are any of these hanging around?

[Walter]

I heard a story, once, that the straps - used as support by standing passengers - disappeared from tube trains on a particular line during WW2. It seems they made excellent coshes and were issued to SAS troops for use in North Africa.

I don't suppose there are any of these hanging around?

hahahaha see what you did there . 

[Anchorman]

I have a shabti dating from around 580 BC - shabtis were funeral figures which were supposed to do the graft for their owners in the afterlife.
Rich folk would have a set of 380 buried with them, poorer plebs less.
This one belonged to a prince Psametik, part of the ruling family of the time.
Thre are about thirty or more of his in existnce, they turned up on the antiquities market in Cairo in the 1890's, so someone must have found the tomb and cleared it, as other bits abs pieces of Psametik's stuff have turned up over the years.
Unlike most Egyptian stuff in private hands, mine was legally obtained and approved for export. I bought it in 1980 from an antiquities dealer.

[Maeght]

A local fossil of a fern from the Carboniferous, and I do collect local postcards too.

[floo]

A local fossil of a fern from the Carboniferous, and I do collect local postcards too.

My husband would claim he has one ancient fossil, MOI!

[Sebastian Toe]

I believe that one of our forum members has in his possession an ancient text, it goes something like this;

"(Some comedian) said to his manager that he was feeling a little funny. His manager told him to get on stage before it wears off!"

[Walter]

I believe that one of our forum members has in his possession an ancient text, it goes something like this;

"(Some comedian) said to his manager that he was feeling a little funny. His manager told him to get on stage before it wears off!"

oh no, I actually read to the end of your post

[Sebastian Toe]

oh no, I actually read to the end of your post

I forgive you.