What's the most strange and obscure item you own?

[subzero]

It could be absolutely anything, something weird that you've kept since your childhood or something you've picked up in recent years. Here's mine, it's a 'Bertie' sweet from about 1989, he used to be blue but now he's understandably dark brown and has turned rock solid like a stone. I found him in a box of Liquorice Allsorts that I had for xmas and thought it was a really special one that maybe wasn't supposed to be in there because i'd never seen one before. So I put him in my little makeshift treasure box full of **** trinkets like old coins and semi-precious stones and other bits of shite that i'd found playing out, and he's survived all these years, I will never sell him :lol:

What's the weirdest and most obscure thing you own?, picture proof needed for maximum impact

 

[x-pack]

My ex girlfriend left some bits of **** in my house including some random, let's say, 'keepsakes' .... :?

 

[subzero]

My ex girlfriend left some bits of **** in my house including some random, let's say, 'keepsakes' .... :?

Always good stuff to stick on the old back garden fire 8)

 

[Mini99]

I will never sell him

:? :!:

 

[Dorsetmark]

I will never sell him

:? :!:

I know, and after seeing it I so wanted it :wink:

 

[spoons]

That is crazy - great story though 8)

not sure I've anything that comes close to a 30 year old sweet :lol:

 

[yoda]

Have you ever been tempted to taste it :?

 

[subzero]

Lmao :lol: no never thought to taste it, but if I ever did then bacteria would get onto it and destroy it

I bet if I did it would taste like ass!

 

[Robstyley]

I dug this up in my garden in Essex in the early 80's when I was about 6 or 7. It's probably the item that I've had the longest along with maybe a few toys from around the same time. I don't know anything about it but I like it and have always kept it. Looks pretty old!

 

[subzero]

That's a cool find, I wonder how old that is and what it was used for :?: hmm!

It could be Victorian or even older 8)

 

[x-pack]

Ooh! That's an interesting looking key. I bet it was for a chest ...or maybe a chastity belt :lol:

 

[spoons]

That's a cool find, I wonder how old that is and what it was used for :?: hmm!

It could be Victorian or even older 8)

or Georgian/early 19th century would be my guess, so a good 200 years old

Great piece of personal history though Andy

 

[Lom]

I've got a couple of lumps of glass!

The day after the Crystal Palace burned down in 1936, my Grandad (23 at the time) who lived locally, went to the devastated building and collected 2 lumps of cooled molten glass. The piece in the picture below probably weighs about 2 pounds.

This glass and a stagecoach my Grandad made are probably my most prized possessions.

 

[subzero]

Wow that's something amazing, great story and a very nice heirloom.

 

[SAVORY100]

These are all really cool..
we have a Syrian Goddess figure that pre-dates Stonehenge that is well loved at home... how these things survived and how they (along with things like Roman oil lamps or glass bottles etc) are available to buy at what I believe are reasonable prices always shocks me

 

[StarWarsFan]

A small Chewbacca lookalike purchased a bag of random figures about a year or so ago from a jumble sale, no Star Wars but had some GI Joe figures and other random figures like adventure people etc. There was this figure that looked somewhat like Chewbacca, sold everything else but kept that.