Uncommonplace items you do own...

[Headgardener]

Some where I have a block of glass that was part of a lighthouse lens. It's only about 3" x 2" x 1" so it might have been a bit that got broken and somebody polished up as a paperweight

 

[661-Pete]

Amongst unusual items in the house - well I must mention the poppy-seed hand-mill we still keep in the kitchen - and which we occasionally use to grind poppy-seeds to make poppy-seed cake*. A beautifully-engineered gadget crafted in cast iron, it still works a treat, just as it has served for successive generations. It could well be over a century old.

*and for no other purpose....

 

[Bollo]

An oil painting of a space invader.

 

[accountantpete]

A very useful Codd bottle opener.

 

[Lardyboy]

A "Mark Radcliffe, Radio 2, Mug At Bedtime" Mug.

 

[Aperitif]

I have a rusty lump of a Harrod's girder - rivets galore - weighing about 80kg I reckon. I lifted it off the skip outside there when I was working opposite, about 1998 - ish? (It was the smallest bit!)

 

[Globalti]

A 1930 HMV portable gramophone and a dozen 78 records, all in good working order.

A first edition of a book called The Eagle's Nest by Sir Alfred Wills, one of the original Everest climbers.

A partially uncut book of the mountain poems of Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.

My grandpa's diary with photos from WW1 when he was in HMS Southampton in the North Atlantic.

 

[upsidedown]

A commemorative pint glass form the 1953 Portsmouth Naval Review.
A publisher's proof copy of the book "Blazing Paddles", one of my favourites.

 

[Globalti]

How the hell did it get here from Szeged (a nice town in southern Hungary where I spent a very slow 24 hours in a spa hotel)?

 

[dellzeqq]

A fossilised crocodile skull.
An African quiver and arrows.
An autographed photo of Fausto Coppi.
A piston and conn. rod from a BR Deltic engine.
A model of a church in Wellingborough. 19th century, made of cigar boxes.
So looking round you, what objects do you see that not many other forumers are likely to have?

Wow! Can I come round and just touch it? Or be in the same room?

 

[Hover Fly]

 

[661-Pete]

An original leaflet advertising the last steam-pulled London to Birmingham train.

I have photos of the last public-service trolleybus in Britain (Bradford 1972). But not the actual bus...

 

[dellzeqq]

ohmigod!

 

[Arch]

I have a sheared off boiler handrail stud from 35007 Merchant Navy Class P and O.

Also, the acetate of 'Archer' from the front of my University Challenge desk, and a photo of us with Jeremy Paxman.

And a sheep's skull. I had a tail too, complete with rubber constricting ring used to remove it, but it started to get moth eaten.

And, inside a wooden box, the outer case of a Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub, made into a container, containing a small portion of human ashes.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

A "Mark Radcliffe, Radio 2, Mug At Bedtime" Mug.

I've got one of those! I identified Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" on the Crucial Three. How did you get yours?