Old Things

[pawngal]

I have an all-nickel-silver table knife, the old style with the straight, parallel edges and half-round tip, that I would guess is around a hundred years old because of the design and the material. I use it almost daily to spread mustard, peanut butter, mayonnaise, etc.

I picked it up for fifty cents in a Goodwill thrift store, and wouldn't part with it for anything. I remember seeing them when I was a boy and they were already old and worn, and I'm past eighty.

My Grandmother's daily use silverware was a set like that. Wish I had kept it.

 

[joe44va]

1870 toothpick

 

[JayFramer]

Wow that is cool now I'm betting not many of those have survived .The wife and I visit the surrounding antique shops quite a bit and I have never seen one or if I did I didn't know what I was looking at .In the local post office they have a collection of old postal items on display and talking to the man that was the once a postmaster come to find out old postal items are very collectible .This is a picture of a glass snuff container my wife picked up at an estate sale ,not sure of exact age but they haven't sold snuff in glass jars for a few years .

Ha! Good 'ol Garrett Scotch Snuff! They were still making it at least about 10 years ago when I tried it. It's the consistency of powdered sugar, and I breathed in too deeply and went to coughing like you wouldn't believe!! I later read folks actually took a stick and used it to take dips of this snuff like modern chew.

 

[crazyphil]

This old match dispenser is about the oldest thing I have.
My Mom and Dad got it shortly after they married in 1929.
I inherited it.

 

[wood714]

A couple tools my grand dad or his dad made...or maybe his dad made.

 

[arjay]

Barometer from my great great grandfathers ship