...and I don't mean your spouse!
2007-08-29 09:20:08 · 38 answers · asked by Granny 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Cheryl, please send my the photo by email. I have a soft spot in my heart for people who went through a disaster and lost everything. Click on my avatar, then look for the email link next to my avatar picture. No cost. I just want to do it for you.
2007-08-29 11:14:04 · update #1
We lost all of our personnel effects when our home went under water during tropical storm Allyson in Houston about five years ago. I do have a picture of my son at age 1 sitting in an antique chair with my captains hat on. It does need to be repaired and am looking for someone who can touch the photo up and enlarge it for framing. He is 21 now.
Wow, some of these people have some really nice treasures from the 1800's.
2007-08-29 09:42:04 · answer #1 · answered by Cheryl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Granny, your follow-up question should be asking just how many of us were tempted to say our spouses! Anyway, I have a picture of my grandmother at 16 years old over in Ireland, taken right around 1900, and then 2 plates that were given to her and my grandfather a few years later as wedding gifts. Also have a quilt that my mother said was always on her bed when she was a little girl. Don't know how old it was at that point, but we're talking about the 1920's when she was young. One other thing, and also very special to me, is a sampler that she did. Fortunately she had signed and dated the back, so I know that she did it in 1943, the same year my oldest sister was born.
2007-08-29 15:13:11 · answer #2 · answered by night-owl gracie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seem to be the nut cake of the bunch. I like collecting wierd things. I love big fossils...I have some hanging on the walls that are pre-jurassic, a T-rex cap of a thigh bone, and others.
I love coins...Old coins, some dating back to the roman and greek empires. I love clocks, but I think the oldest I have is 1886 Seth Thomas in a French case. I used to love old glassware, but living in Shaky Earth country, gave that all to my kids as presents long ago. When I wanted to get back into glass, checked the prices of what I had given away...NEVER MIND!
No matter what I collect, no matter what any of us have, the most valuable old things we have are old friends. Take an inventory of those and I suspect that, as I, you cannot count that many on hand. And Granny, that is extremely kind of you to offer help in restoring the picture...so nice to be here an "meet" all these interesting, varied people from all over the place. The combined experienced found here would make some book!
2007-08-29 12:38:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm? I have the Meet the Beatles album purchased from a friend in the early 1960s. Can you say Mono and not Dolby sound?
I also have a gold chain with a pearl that my dad gave to me when I was in high school, and a twenty dollar bill minted in Hawaii, 1934.
I also have a picture of my aunt when she was young taken in the 1920s as well as a picture of my great-grandfather, probably dated late 1800s.
2007-08-29 10:36:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
An Indian blanket from Oaxaca that belonged to my grandmother, and a conche shell found in South America that a boyfriend of hers gave her when she was about 13.
2007-08-29 10:03:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My paternal grandfather's pocket watch and my paternal grandmother's photo bracelet with an E and 3 pearls on the cover.They're both long gone now, would be in their 120s now if alive.
2007-08-29 13:25:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well the oldest thing I own that was given to me is a pearl bracelet it was my grandmothers. From my understanding she owned it since her early twenties.
The oldest thing that I have acquired through my years on this earth is a rag/blanket. My mother gave it to me and I have never let it go. I still sleep with it to this day.
2007-08-29 10:42:44 · answer #7 · answered by ♥PirplePashn♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL! I wanted to use hubby!! lol No, actually, it is an antique chair which has the carvings from the Christian persecution days! You cannot tell but, the chair has the sign of the fish, multiple crosses and so forth! It is beautiful!
2007-08-29 10:40:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's probably the piece of hand-made lace from my Scottish great, great-grandmother that's in a frame to try to preserve it. Somewhere from the middle 1800's.
2007-08-29 10:38:37 · answer #9 · answered by gldnsilnc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have an old, blue glass bottle of Vicks, it does not have a lable on it, but the top is green and white metal screw on. By the way, the vicks still works!!! lol
2007-08-29 10:14:07 · answer #10 · answered by sadiemae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋