Ancient relics

[Roses]

Apart from the very ancient relic which is little me, we have a couple brought from my childhood home in Guernsey. I would love to know the provenance of a key, which is obviously very old. I used to tease my grandchildren that is was the one the Minstrel Blondel, an ancestor of mine on my father's side of the family, used to release Richard the Lionheart from his prison in Austria.

We also have pew from monastery sale, which we think dates back to the Tudor era, which my mother purchased for a fiver in 1952, when I was two. My father had it valued about 35 years ago and was told it was worth about £2000. It is in very good condition considering my sisters and I used to sit on it as kids, as did my children and grandchildren. It is now kept in our hall, and promised to our Vicar daughter when I pop my clogs.

The other week I bought an ammonite from an antiques shop which we believe to be genuine, I was astonished to discover they died out over 60 million years ago, WOW, even older than me!  

Do other posters have any relics going back several centuries?

[Anchorman]

 I, too, have an ammonite, purchesed at the brilliant 'treasures of the Earth' centre at Fort William. I also have a 'shabti'; a funeral figure of a king of Egypt's 26th dynasty, dating to about 590 BC. It's genuine, and perfectly legal; someone must have looted the tomb (which we haven't found) late in the nineteenth century, and dozens of the shabtis have been on the market ever since. He probably had the full set - 370 - buried with him when he snuffed it. I bought mine in Cairo in 1980.

[Walter]

I, too, have an ammonite, purchesed at the brilliant 'treasures of the Earth' centre at Fort William. I also have a 'shabti'; a funeral figure of a king of Egypt's 26th dynasty, dating to about 590 BC. It's genuine, and perfectly legal; someone must have looted the tomb (which we haven't found) late in the nineteenth century, and dozens of the shabtis have been on the market ever since. He probably had the full set - 370 - buried with him when he snuffed it. I bought mine in Cairo in 1980.

i bought mine for a tenner direct from the manufacturer on Bury market a couple of years ago

[Roses]

My father inherited some items of pottery from a wealthy elderly French cousin when she died in the early 50s. They were kept in a class wall cupboard in the kitchen of my family home. My Mother disliked one particular dish, and when dusting it 'accidentally' dropped and broke it. I saw a very similar dish on the Antiques Road Show a few years ago, it was valued at several thousands pounds, WHOOPS!

[jeremyp]

My father inherited some items of pottery from a wealthy elderly French cousin when she died in the early 50s. They were kept in a class wall cupboard in the kitchen of my family home. My Mother disliked one particular dish, and when dusting it 'accidentally' dropped and broke it. I saw a very similar dish on the Antiques Road Show a few years ago, it was valued at several thousands pounds, WHOOPS!

I saw a pottery owl on Antiques Roadshow that was valued at something like £5000. Well my brother made one almost identical at school when he was nine. My parents still have it.

[Nearly Sane]

I saw a pottery owl on Antiques Roadshow that was valued at something like £5000. Well my brother made one almost identical at school when he was nine. My parents still have it.

I painted a version of the Haywain with the help of numbers that was almost identical to the real one - I daftly threw it out.

[Anchorman]

i bought mine for a tenner direct from the manufacturer on Bury market a couple of years ago

 




Reminds me of some of the fakes on sale in Cairo by enterprising vendors.
One dusty slab of stone had hieroglyphs on it...purportedly mentioning Cleopatra.
What they ACTUALLY said was
"The buyer is an idiot"!
We admired the style!

[Roses]

I saw a pottery owl on Antiques Roadshow that was valued at something like £5000. Well my brother made one almost identical at school when he was nine. My parents still have it.

The pottery inherited from my father's cousin would almost certainly have been genuine, she only had the best, being extremely wealthy.

[Walter]

 




Reminds me of some of the fakes on sale in Cairo by enterprising vendors.
One dusty slab of stone had hieroglyphs on it...purportedly mentioning Cleopatra.
What they ACTUALLY said was
"The buyer is an idiot"!
We admired the style!

I also bought a  drinking vessel specially designed for the consumption of coffee, it had MUG written on it!