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My grandfather's Gibson from the early sixties

I have a Timex Sinclair 1000 in a box somewhere. I have never successfully powered it and don't have a compelling enough reason to bodge a power supply onto it but it looks cool

Mechanical calculator from 1953. Which is wild because it beats everything else in my apartment by like 40+ years lol. Like I think second place is some SNES carts from the early 90s

silver Roman coin from Hadrian's reign in 120 AD! I have a few old coins, but thats definitely the oldest. There's also some prehistoric pottery sherds in my storage somewhere that were uncovered out of context, but definitely OLD.

my dad went to Rome for work when I was a child and he took a literal piece of rock out of a wall of the colosseum and gave it to me so I guess that lol

currently, my grandfather's Yashica-C camera

grandfather's pocketwatch

A Greek stater from ~334 BCE. One side depicts a Chimeria, and on the reverse a dove with a wreath.

It was a gift from my paediatrician, before my family left the UK. I never realised the significance of it until I was in my teens. Quite the gesture 😌

Were it not for a book I have from 1854 (Intellectual Arithmetic for American Youth, on the Analytic Method), I'd say the core portion of our house which dates to 1860.

probably my father’s Sharp PC-1403

Is it missing “computer” in the modern sense, or entirely? The word previously existed in the sense of “a person who performs calculations”

yeah, fountain pens are great in that you can clean it, add a cartridge of fresh ink, and it will always write nicely--though i would probably empty the ink back after a little while.

my first guess was an old shaeffer, but maybe a cross?

Heh... Ceramic mugs are pretty much just ceramic whetstone, if you rub stuff on them

And hm. Best I got is a 1970s leather bag (for military officers to keep maps in I think?)