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i have a stick match holder, probably over 100years old. made out of two metallic 10guage shotgun casings, one cut down to make a cap for the other casings.
i never have used it, afraid of loosing it.

how about a WWI sight adjustment tool for a 1903, or a 1880's calvary rifle scabbard?

Single tree and double tree.

Nothing makes a better gambrell for beef, hogs, or game than an old oak single tree.

Mercedes Benz 300 SL Gull Wing coupes!

(The real ones! - only 1,400 made between 1954-57)

Non computerized vehicles

Velvet cans for fishing worms in your shirt pocket.

Push button automatic transmissions.

Throttle control knobs on the dash so you could keep the engine revved a bit, while you stepped out and pushed.

It was interesting times to be alive or die.

Prince Albert, here. My dad rolled his own.

My mother had a Singer pedal sewing machine. My wife sewed her wedding dress on one at a neighbor's cabin on our remote river site 42 years ago, and there is one sitting in our living room right now - her grandmother's.

Beepers

Wabigoon: A friend and fellow gun-nut gave me a package of Marlin (with the Marlin Firearms logo on it!) safety razor blades last summer!
I miss a lot of things from the 50's and 60's - top of that list is the fantastic Zephyr binoculars made by the Bausch & Lomb Company at their Rochester, New York plant.
I have put together maybe 13 (thirteen) pairs of them and plan on dispersing them to the VarmintKids and VarmintGrandkids when the end of my trail is in view.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Mark and Toby! You can’t get much odder and there’s only one each! 😇😇😇😇

Dial telephones, vacuum tubes, Coca Cola with cocaine, alcohol and codeine in it (until early 40s I think). Heathkits, 57 Bel Aires.

Single shot .22s used to be in racks in the back of every gun shop, and they couldn't give them away. The shops would try to include them in trades just to liquidate their stock. Now if you even see one they want a war price for it. I looked for several years recently for a cheaper one to use shorts in for pests, that was under 200 bucks. I finally found a Glenfield that needed work, but I had to put sights on it, and a trigger guard. It shoots good now, but it wasn't as cheap as it should have been.

.....and turn tables. Vinyl records too.

Funny that this is the OP.
It's what went through my head reading the title.


Just got into using them, want to try some of the old ones,
But I'm buying users. Collectors can have them.

Scored a 1912 brass one this week. $8. Open comb type, I was a bit
nervous using it. Did great, no cuts.

What ever made the older folk pitch them and start buying
dispo$ibles? Or were they not so darn expensive back then.

35mm film cans and 16mm film cans

2lb metal coffee cans

newspaper-- stopped taking a paper over 10 years ago.

Pop tops.

glass milk bottles

ash trays
smoking pipe ash tray/pipe holder
cigarette machines
payphones
1 pound coffee cans
1 gallon ice cream containers

Old friends that don't forget the good times we had together.

Those old gillette safety razors, my grandfather used them, he had a little slot in the medicine cabinet that you would dispose of your dull blades in. There was no catch can they just fell inside the walls. Hate to do a remodel and find all those razors.