carolinagirl wrote:A lady I know just wrote a biography with photos of the first presidential pilot who was from our town here-Tifton, Lt. Col. Henry Tift Myers. There's a photo of him in his den with a big Nazi flag on the wall, with a caption that quickly emphasizes that it was a souvenir from WWII Germany and not indicative of his beliefs.
That's a real collectors item...
When we moved into our house a couple of years ago, we joked around about hanging it up outside....just to freak the neighbors out. We would never do such a thing, of course.....
I guess it will just stay in the closet and when we die our 'keet will inherit it and then he'll have to figure out what to do with it.
About a six years ago, my parents had to finally replace a washing machine that they have had since 1973. The oldest thing I bought is a rug that I bought in 1996.
If you want an experience, go to a Jimmy Buffett concert.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Of mine? I have an embroidered linen sundress that my grandfather, who was in the Canadian Merchant Navy bought for me in 1954 when he was in Jamaica.
Passed down? A framed sampler completed in 1804 by my great x 4 grandmother on my mom's side. It has been passed down to the eldest daughter of each generation. I also have a pair of that g-g-g-g-grandmother's gold and garnet earrings.
Cate
"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky." ~ Buddha
Probably some of my very first single records ......
However, the first "major" thing I bought, I still have - and that is my dressing table (dresser) - I bought that when I was 17 - loved it so much - I still have it and any bed since then has had to match it!
My great grandmother's engagement ring (a ruby with sapphires and diamonds around it), which no one seems to know the age of
A white couchlike piece of furniture that dates back to early 1800's, and a crystal chandelier my uncle gave us that dates back to around early 1700's.
My husband has some coins that are very old, but I don't know how old.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all..
We have a blanket chest from the late 1700's. Dovetailed and everything. Beautiful piece. Found it at an auction. Cheap.
I have some quilts and woven jacquard blankets from the early 1800's. Some are signed and dated by the quilter/weaver.
I sleep in an antique brass bed that the appraiser dated from around the mid 1800's.
But, the one thing I love above all else is the 1948 wedding band Mr. Stanley (Marcus) designed for my mother . . . she was his first distributive education student at the Downtown Dallas store. . . I wear the wedding band now . . . with my father's mother's grandmother's diamond in the center. It's so special to me. ~Sigh~
Gentilly ... 42 years is a long time to wait .... a Northeast Texas woman can hope.
My love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain.
I have a chest r draws from the late 1800's,my pride and joy is a 1976 Kawasaki kz 900ltd,and I have a set of Polk Audio sda2 speakers from 1985...they're better than anything Polk makes today!
I have a platinum and diamond ring that was my Great Grandmother's...it's well over a hundred years old. I wear it every day.
I have a china head doll that is pre civil war. Well, the head is original, her fabric body was replaced, or at least the clothes were. Even the new parts are pretty old though.
I have a book of Shakespeare that has no printing date...but there is a Christmas inscription in the front dated 1892. Inside there is a newspaper clipping about "Studies of Shakespeare" from the Chicago Record, Friday, January 9th, 1899.
And I have as far as things I have owned, I have a teddy bear that was given to me when I was born, and my silver baby cup.
25 years old and counting
