My wife and I lived in the middle of the mountains of Papua New Guinea from 1989 - 1982. We have lots of artifacts and a few still adorn our living room.
Below is an assortment of bilums, which are hand woven string bags beside a traditional bow and assortment of arrows. A strip of bamboo is used for the bowstring.
Ok here we go - a small number of things to scratch the surface...
A Lichtenberg "captured lightning" in an acrylic cylinder. My dad made this in the 1970's:
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Aladdin mantle lamps, my grandfather's trumpet, and my dad's slide rules.
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Yes please, video games have ruined my imagination 😉
Oh here's another good one!
A copy of the Anatomy of Melancholy, by "Democritus Junior" (really Robert Burton). Printed in London in 1676. Was pretty much the first English language "best seller". This was printed years after Burton's death, and was the last printing up until the middle 1800s. This one is someone unusual in that it has never been rebound, although it badly needs attention in that department. It was also used by one "William Hunter" among others to randomly sign their name inside the front and back cover - the earliest of these signatures is dated 1692.
It appears to me as though the watch has a cylinder escapement. Parts for these can be found if you look long enough, look in the right places, and know what you are looking for. The bigger problem is trying to find someone who’ll work on them! Life is too short for that kind of frustration. 😉
Finally my wife’s grandfathers pocket watch. I know this is an anything but watch thread,
but the watch does not work as apparently it has a movement that’s not a normal one and pieces can’t be found (according to my Jewlers). This is the reason I included it as it’s a piece of history of a man who was taken away by the Germans and never seen again.
That's a good antiquarian acquisition. Pre-1700 books have become pricey in recent times. I like your photos.
We love antiquarian books and have several hundred that predate 1850 scattered about the shelves of a 1500 volume library. Trash and treasures it is, but some neato books appear in our collection. This one must have not been in London, at least in 1666 for it still exists. The Great Fire consumed much.
Here are just a few.
This one was fun to find. I bought it in a dusty used book store in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Thought that was fitting given the title. Odd that Oliver Goldsmith titled his novel so for the story has nothing to do with Wakefield.
Decent early copy of Baker's "Hudibras."
