Tons of other stuff, some dating back to 1711. History is cool, right?

Cool!

I got $100,000 bid!

I've got a Lyman bench mounted turret press that uses the same dies as the tong tool. The only ones I have for it are .38/.357- - - -not carbide!

very cool

That’s awesome ..

Awesome history on display there, Leighton!

A better time.

Very Cool! I load several different guns with the Lyman hand tools!

The stuff or our youth.

very cool stuff, thanks for sharing

I can just about smell those pictures.

Upstanding quality of preservation.

Well preserved .
My first was the lee set in 38-357 used a hammer to load with . Powder measure was with a dipper .
Know a fellow who still loads his 30-06 with the lee loader .
He kills the hell out of deer with his loads .
But the set you got is definitely older than what I had .
Amazing at the people who say it was better times , could you imagine loading for the gun collections we have with such tools ?
Kenneth

Cool finds!

Great find! I had a Lee hand (hammer it in!) kit for my 8mm Sears Mauser.

I would agree they are for their age. Lyman set is '58 vintage. Chem set is '62, I think. Before my time, but like so many things made in the USA back then, was built well and built to last.

Awesome!

Neat stuff, I after seeing it, I have a Hawthorne 16 ga like the one you have the flyer for. My Dad bought it for my brother and I in the early 60's. Man does that thing kick!
Thanks for the memories!

I still use my 310 tool at times and I think my microscope is somewhere downstairs.

I bought the 310 tool when we moved to Hawaii and couldn’t take my bench.

That is SUPER COOL!!

You no have kids KG?

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

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Amazeballs!

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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.

Someday I hope to know the provenance on that letter, other than the translated text. Whatever mi Abuelo knew he took to his grave.

Grandfather's Spanish made Eibar 44mag "1873 Colt"

Got quite a bit of real funny money.. WWII stuff





Some real agate marbles.

Rifleman board game set.

Yes, that is truly exceptional and I can mostly even understand it.!

I will dig out a book as per your request. 1814 printing or such. A very interesting account by a rather famous American of the Revolutionary period.
and one from the 60's of somewhat historical interest. Wish I had the picture of us meeting the subject of that book. Father worked for him.

The second book mentioned was easiest to dig out, therefor first here:



Signed by the good Dr himself, likely at his institute where the old man worked.

All I found were a few skulls, with no teeth of course and a femur bone.

Looks like you found a real treasure trove of well preserved goodies from the good old days. I had a similar microscope outfit and chemistry lab set back in the day.

Now for the older one. Some (many?) of the folks on here might recognize the dude that wrote it, some may have even read it. Apparently, as I found them in my searches for info on the book, there are paperback copies of it so perhaps somewhere in the halls of academia American History might still be taught?

Ratty cover, perhaps not surprising given it's 200+/- years old?



Title page, and they knew how to write a title back then, eh?




And the Introduction:



I believe, given the current situation of the Country, and the impetus of this thread, that perhaps it is time for my occasional rereading of the words of the good Colonel?

Very interesting treasures, fellas. Very cool.

Kamo Gari, was your aunt interred at Tulare?

Cool stuff in here, guys!

These threads make this place worthwhile.

Well, at a minimum tolerable on some days

That is some awesome treasure

Man, what a wonderful family heirloom, Fats.

Barry, those marbles are way cool, and the bills too!

Geno, great stuff. I'll have to look up that EA book and grab a copy. Thanks! You just reminded me of a pair of thick printed books I own, both of which I bought at a yard sale years ago for 5 bucks. They are law books, of all things; two volumes of a three volume set on the Laws of England. The first volume was printed by hand and published in the year 1629. They probably started the thing 10 years earlier...

Morewood, yes, five members of my family were locked up or 'interned' if you will, during WWII. My Grandma, grandpa, my dad and his two sisters. Sachi was a baby at the time and my dad was 5. Aya, the eldest child and the one whose belongings I inherited, was 20. Good old EO 9066. My family, along with ~110K others-- with about 2/3 of those being American citizens-- pretty much lost everything they couldn't carry and were first told to report to a co-called assembly center. There were around 15 of those on the west coast.

My family reported to the Santa Anita racetrack as ordered, where they were housed in horse stalls. 'Hey, this isn't a Holiday Inn Express at ALL!' They were then sent to Manzanar, which was one of 11 actual internment camps. That was before being shipped to the Gila River internment desert camp in AZ for almost 3 years. Not very good times for my family, but they stuck it out. Unlike Sachi's future husband's family, who chose to return to Japan, which was an option the US goobermint offered to all that were to be locked up. Their family was returned all right, to a place called Hiroshima. Whoops!

+1

Whoops?

Yikes is more like it.

I think about that sad part of our history every time I go to the Big Town for a specialist appointment or shopping. Have to pass through Newell, CA, home of the Tule Lake Internment Camp.

Have to go past places where the Modoc War occurred, the road to Canby's Cross commemorating the death of the only General killed in the Indian Wars.

Lotta history around these parts for such an out of the way place.

I dig old stuff.

Fats, did you mean to say 44 special???

Hahaha!

👍😎

A huge injustice to the Japanese Americans living in the USA at the time. Sad chapter.

Leighton's got some cool old stuff, that's just a little of it.

Really nice.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane Leighton. My mom used to say I was raised by the Japanese. The farm that I grew up on in a little town in Utah was ran By two brothers, Jim and Tom Matsumori. They both were in interment camps as babies at the Topaz mountain camps outside Delta Utah. My greatest memories of my youth were helping them on the farm with cabbage, cauliflower, radishes, green onions and parsley. My gramps owned the farm that they leased from him for 22 years. Then for another 20 years the Kuwahara brothers ran it also a couple Japanese brothers that I got to know very well. PS the Kuwaharas still have a Produce selling operation where I grew up.


Sorry don't have any pics but a nice stroll down memory lane.

Small world sometimes, and thanks for sharing, bud. I was duck hunting in the Boise, ID area some years ago and a guest on a property that some of the friends of my local host was friendly with. Turns out their family was interned at Heart Mountain, WY during the war. They remained owners during the war only due to the neighbors/friends they'd made over the previous decades pre-WWII. In fact, had it not been for the kindness and generosity of said neighbors that they'd have been released from the camps with nothing to their names, even after some 60 years of working their land. Their neighbors took care of their land and paid their bills and farmed it through the end of the war, and welcomed those interned with open arms upon their release. They also presented with every penny that they'd earned while the owners were incarcerated. Can you say, 'patriots'? Can't imagine any deeper showing of love and kindness than that.

I was told that the two J/A brothers who'd been interned were hard-core waterfowl hunters, and would regularly invite other local boys to smash ducks on the family fields pre-war, and after. One of the old timers who was in attendance at a few of those field-based hunts when I was out there related that those [bleep] brothers were straight up duck killers, but ones who'd occasionally have off days in the blind where birds just didn't want to sit down into their spread. Why? Because both were chain smokers and you could see the smoke emanating from their blind a quarter mile off...

A couple more shots. C'mon, kids. I know some of you SOBs are hiding some treasures you should be sharing.









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Want to hear something painful and gut-wrenching? After my asking her about it, my dear aunt explained to me after my delicately inquiring that after she was widowed, she called the local constabulary and had them come 'dispose' of an entire room full of firearms. When I asked her how many, she said, 'I don't know, maybe more than 100...'. She also explained that she'd given the next door hick neighbor her late husband's '52 Chevy Bel Air with a four speed manual. Said it was 'too powerful and made too much noise' for her to want to keep and drive it, opting for one of her beloved aircraft carrier sized Buicks instead...

FARK!

chlins my bad, old age and talking on phone while posting. It's actually a 44Winchester or 44-40.

Really cool stuff!
Picked this up some years back, loaded a couple rounds, worked great!

That's some cool stuff L.