I love old stuff ..... have loads of it lying about the house .... my Dad was a big collector of curiosities and it rubbed off on me! .... here's some random ones ....

Oldest man made things (trained as a geologist so have the odd fossil or six hanging about) ..... some arrowheads picked up by my Dad off Kinder Scout in Derbyshire (he worked for the National Park and spent years hoofing about up there)

A Roman glass bottle .... for something expensive by the size of it .... medical or cosmetic probably.....collected by my Dad back when I was a kid.

A Braille engineer's micrometer .... old pal of mine worked as a machinist for an Engineers in Rushden .... one of the other engineers went to WW2 and came home blinded ... the firm wouldn't let him go and he adapted and was still doing lathe work until he retired ..... the micrometer was going to be skipped but Dave rescued it for me because he knew it would appeal .... over the years I've tried to get it to a blind machinist via various organisations but no takers .... guess if there are any still out there they have digital micrometers with audio output.

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