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That is SUPER COOL!!

You no have kids KG?

Very cool, Fats. A few more minor league little treasures (to me, anyway).

[img]https://i.imgur.com/txa1vnh.jpg?1[/img]

Amazeballs!

[img]https://i.imgur.com/tMoMWh6.jpg?1[/img]


[img]https://i.imgur.com/rujWLVn.jpg?1[/img]

Geno;
Right!?!

Thanks for sharing Leighton.

Dwayne

Sadly, no. We tried over the course of 9 years. We lost 3. One almost killed my wife. Tried IVF, surrogacy, the whole nine. The most heartbreaking thing I will ever have to endure is not having children. And hereby dies my happy thread attempt...

Thanks, Jimbo.

JK.

Some of the most worthwhile people I know were unable to conceive. Some of the most worthless chitbags have lots of bastard puppies.

Yes...I see. Sorry about that.


Was just wondering how you kept your treasures so nice and intact...not scattered all over hell like my dad's treasures.

Good going bro..

Fact. Two of the guys I grew up with managed to sire 13 offspring between them, at last count. That was years ago. I'm sure there are more now. 10 different mothers. Want to guess how many of those ghetto spawn kids they supported? Yeah.

Beeg Jeem, no sweat. I figured you didn't mean anything by it.

I don't know why some of the pics aren't showing but a couple of them are 'WWI Journals in Pictures'. Most from 1914-1915. Guys with feathers in their helmets and crazy get-ups in general. The 'Quattro' is a ship's papers of the whaling bark Palmetto out of New Bedford, MA from 1875. It's called a quattro because it's written in 4 languages (English, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese). It is signed by Ulysses S. Grant, who was POTUS at that time. The description on it is of a ~ 2.5 YEAR voyage to the Azores and other places where they hunted whales.

I have pictures I found in an archive of that very vessel. Living history stuff. That other handwritten document from 1780 is an inspection report of a command under Colonel Peter Gansevoort of the NY 2nd of the Continental Army. It has notations on how many horses, muskets, powder, POWs (1 at the time ) and whatnot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gansevoort

In the notes at the bottom, the inspector describes the clothing of the men being somewhat shabby, but better than their counterparts. Also notes that the men were in good spirits and would take to song at quiet times in camp. The word he used to describe said music? 'Tolerable'. Funny stuff.

Very Cool stuff!
Thanks for sharing!

kamo;
Afternoon again my friend.

Are most of these treasures stuff you've found over the years by looking in the right places?

The documents from the 1780's is crazy cool to me.

Thanks again for sharing.

Dwayne

FatCity67:
Holy smokes that's cool!

Thanks for sharing.

Dwayne

Hey now, here's Pancho! That is way cool, dude. Mas, por favor, si tu tienes el tiempo.

That goes for anyone else who cares to share. I dearly love old stuff and the history of objects. I know there are plenty of folks here with lots of crazy stuff of their own. Let's see 'em!

My friend Dwayne, I can't take much credit, as much of it was simply stuff I inherited from family during the clean out of my late aunt's estate in upstate NY more than a decade ago. I just recognized that there was history being trashed. I took lots of stuff that I literally pulled out of dumpsters. I couldn't believe they'd just pitched the things they did. My old man and brother considered it garbage. I'm glad I was on scene to take it home and save it. Go figure.

As far as those old documents, when I found them I thought they might be reproductions, so went to a couple of appraisers on a free eval basis. Actually, one of the guys in Boston was the long time staff expert who did many evals over the years for PBS' Antiques Roadshow. He said that they were all real but couldn't offer a value, as he was really a rare/antique book guy. He did refer me to another guy who I brought the 1780 inspection report. This fellow took it in his hands and about 30 seconds later he offered me $4500 for it on the spot. This a guy from Skinner, which is a Boston version of Christie's auction house of NY. I told him thanks, but I liked it fine on my wall, but appreciated learning it was genuine and rare. He was surprised I liked it so much, I think.

I'll likely donate it and a lot of other of these things to historical societies or something someday. My wife has some truly remarkable old stuff she inherited from family Japan as well, but she keeps that stuff hidden from me, I think. It's not down in the basement with my stuff/crap. That I do know.

Anyway, sorry for running on. I hope you and yours are doing great, sir. You always bring class and smiles to the table.

Cool stuff. Looks like 1950s.