Weird and Interesting shit your family has

My great uncle was a multi-millionaire art collector, Vietnam veteran, and lived in a neighborhood in the middle of nowhere where he and all his neighbors had restraining orders against each other. Once I went to his house, and I saw his huge collection of art and statues, which filled most of his house. Me and my dad didn't get too much from his estate though when he died, just an authentic painting from an obscure late 19th century Italian artist (worth a few hundred) and a few decades-old wooden statues.

Keystone dijo:
Some old handwritten bible in German, and some plaque thing that the last survivors of the Civil War got in the 20's or 30's. It's falling apart now, but still neat.
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My house has a plaque of one of my great-great whatever uncle's discharge letters from his Civil War service, signed by Ambrose Burnside (the guy with the crazy sideburns) when he was Governor of Rhode Island. I have no idea who he even was, and it isn't something you'd get from being one of the last Civil War vets.
 
LazarusOwenhart dijo:
Ok, I don't think we can let you get away without elaborating on that one...
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Without powerlevelling too much and potentially doxing my extended family; it's a grade 1 historical building in England, was constructed in the 15th century, and remodeled in the 19th century to be more of a private residence. It was also used to defend against invading French forces. It's still lived in by relatives who only open it up to the public on special occasions.

But I don't live in England, so I've never had the opportunity to drop by.
 
Father had his favorite player sign a game 7 world series ticket. By having the player sign the ticket lost significant value, since it is now such a niche piece. Even the player made that comment when signing the ticket. Grandma has a complete set (box and all) of the original Jarts and we got to play with them as kids (with parents hovering over us at all times). She also had a vuvuzela and for the longest time we had all thought it was a t-ball stand you could just make annoying sounds with.
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Interesting toy that I have is a Gamecom. Asked for a Gameboy Pocket and instead got the Gamecom. Have the game Lights Out, Henry, Batman & Robin, and Willams Arcade Classics.
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I have a first addition copy of The Circus of Dr. Lao left to me by my father. It has some very un PC illustration in it. I don't know where he got it from.

Syaoran Li dijo:
My dad gave me his old copy of the First Edition core rulebook for Vampire: The Masquerade he bought way back in 1993 as a gift for my eighteenth birthday.
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You just made me feel old I hope you happy with yourself.
 
oneninetyone dijo:
Without powerlevelling too much and potentially doxing my extended family; it's a grade 1 historical building in England, was constructed in the 15th century, and remodeled in the 19th century to be more of a private residence. It was also used to defend against invading French forces. It's still lived in by relatives who only open it up to the public on special occasions.

But I don't live in England, so I've never had the opportunity to drop by.
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Which castle is it?
 
My grandpa was with the Peace Corps and was stationed in Somalia, where he acqired this interesting object which was passed down to us when he passed last year. (I don't have a photo of ours, but this is similar)
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This is actually a headrest, used because Somalia is one of those places in Africa where you don't want to sleep with your head touching the ground. Too many massive bugs that might attempt to burrow straight into your ears.
 
MerriedxReldnahc dijo:
My grandpa was with the Peace Corps and was stationed in Somalia, where he acqired this interesting object which was passed down to us when he passed last year. (I don't have a photo of ours, but this is similar)
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This is actually a headrest, used because Somalia is one of those places in Africa where you don't want to sleep with your head touching the ground. Too many massive bugs that might attempt to burrow straight into your ears.
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Have you ever tried it? Some people swear it's better than a pillow. But it looks like it would hurt to me. Then again anything is better than having surprise bug larva crawling out of your ears one day.
 
China from the wreck of the Andrea Doria.

My brother-in-law is a crazy scuba diver (quite a few people have died trying to "dive the Doria").
He has done a few other big/technical dives on ocean liners but you are not supposed to take stuff from those sites.
 
My dad has his mother's immigration papers from when she fled Poland to New York during WWII. When the immigration officer asked her what her birth date was, she realized she didn't know because Poles didn't celebrate birthdays back then and her family book that contained her birth record had been lost in the war. So she took a wild guess and declared her birth date to be March 29, 1932.
 
One of my relatives who's been in and out involved in some lucrative businesses had a Bengal tiger, from when it was an adolescent, like a pet/dog. I don't wanna call it a that because that kind of animal isn't a pet or a dog but that's what it was. He raised it and it was just this free roaming big-ass tiger that was essentially a normal man's German shepherd. He actually had a few exotic animals but I don't remember what else. I don't wanna say too much about my family but my great grandfather got a bunch of medals in the first world war, he saved a cannon from capture and his men, but didn't get the highest medal because he went against his immediate superior's orders not to do so and that it was a suicide mission. He was a veteran of Vimy ridge and the medals though in my family went to a specific family member.
 
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