Historical artifacts in your possession - Historum

Helios · March 13th, 2012, 02:33 PM

I would appreciate if you would post pictures of historical items you possess also with some background story of how you acquired them. I will start with Roman items i found, they are all from Dalmatia, all but the last pic are from Burnum which started being a roman camp probably around first century and was completely destroyed when the emperor Justinian attempted to take it back from the Ostrogoths in the 6th century.
The last one i found while going to a roman cistern and went a little away from the road.
I already posted these pics a while ago, but wanted to start a thread where we all can post pictures of what we have so that we can all burn with envy towards one another:

A piece from Roman board game:

From a neclace i believe.

**Salah** · March 13th, 2012, 07:33 PM

A few Indian arrowheads, some of which I found myself.

**Louise C** · March 13th, 2012, 11:09 PM

I have a small collection of antiquities, but they're all things I bought, I didn't find any of them myself.

Helios · March 14th, 2012, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Salah

A few Indian arrowheads, some of which I found myself.

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Originally Posted by Louise C

I have a small collection of antiquities, but they're all things I bought, I didn't find any of them myself.

Give us some pictures.

**bartieboy** · March 14th, 2012, 01:28 AM

I have a Russian Mosin Nagant from 1940 like this

a bayonet from a Steyr-Mannlicher m1895 (probably from ww1)

a Swedish mauser from 1926

And besides that I also have a Brodie Helmet, Audrien helmet, Hungarian helmet (probably a fake) and a Dutch helmet.

Fourteen · March 14th, 2012, 02:42 AM

I don't actually have much in my personal collection; probably the most 'antique' stuff I have are some coins, the oldest of which dates to 1851 (Napoleon III).

Pythagoras · March 14th, 2012, 05:39 AM

I have many books inherited to my family from the 1830's to the 1920's. Most of them cover several subjects from ancient Greek literature to Ottoman Legal Code, Byzantine History, Russian History, etc. I feel lucky for having them in my possession. Other than that, i have some coins from the 19th century.