[Misc] I sold my brain today - what are your coolest antiquities?

[Han Solo]

Today I sold my conserved human brain - some old education stuff - for ca £200. Probably not the best deal I've ever done but one of the most difficult. For some reason, Facebook seems to have a negative attitude towards people who sell human remains.

Probably the coolest "old shite"-stuff I've found and sold so far.

Anyone else got some cool/fancy/odd objects laying around?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Did it come from an upper class dwarf?

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

NSC Gold please @Guinness Boy

 

[kojak]

My bosch dishwasher

 

[WildWood]

Your didn't sell it to Dr. Hfuhruhurr did you?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Judging by your post history i had assumed you’d done this a while back.

 

[Han Solo]

Judging by your post history

Man, I thought I had much time on my hands...

 

[Jackthelad]

That would go down well with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

 

[Goldstone1976]

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Today I sold my conserved human brain - some old education stuff - for ca £200. Probably not the best deal I've ever done but one of the most difficult. For some reason, Facebook seems to have a negative attitude towards people who sell human remains.

Probably the coolest "old shite"-stuff I've found and sold so far.

Anyone else got some cool/fancy/odd objects laying around?

I have some poison arrows for a blowpipe from Borneo. I haven’t told the copper friend I have them, since they looked disapprovingly at the 1890s truncheon I have hanging on a hook in the kitchen.

 

[WildWood]

I tried to sell my Paul Weller 'Wild Wood' themed (hence the username!), signed Lambretta on the Channel 4 show Four Rooms once. I didn't sell it at the time (but eventually had to sell it during lockdown )

 

[Goldstone1976]

Actually, now I think about it, I have a couple of cooler antiquities.

My partner’s grandfather was a relatively famous Egyptologist (several items in the British Museum - including ‘one of our greatest treasures’, a wing of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge named after him, yada yada).

I happened to be browsing an antiquities’ auction sale a couple of years’ ago, and something made me type his name in the free-form search box. Up came two items in that specific sale - he was the original finder of both pieces. I bought them. They’re back in the family. I can find no other pieces that he owned having ever come to market across maybe a dozen auction houses. Providence.

They have pride of place on the sitting room mantelpiece.

 

[Han Solo]

Actually, now I think about it, I have a couple of cooler antiquities.

My partner’s grandfather was a relatively famous Egyptologist (several items in the British Museum - including ‘one of our greatest treasures’, a wing of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge named after him, yada yada).

I happened to be browsing an antiquities’ auction sale a couple of years’ ago, and something made type his name in the free-form search box. Up came two items in that specific sale - he was the original finder of both pieces. I bought them. They’re back in the family. I can find no other pieces that he owned having ever come to market across maybe a dozen auction houses. Providence.

They have pride of place on the sitting room mantelpiece.

Sounds cool. What are they? Art? Door knobs? Sarcophages?

 

[AmexRuislip]

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Today I sold my conserved human brain - some old education stuff - for ca £200. Probably not the best deal I've ever done but one of the most difficult. For some reason, Facebook seems to have a negative attitude towards people who sell human remains.

Probably the coolest "old shite"-stuff I've found and sold so far.

Anyone else got some cool/fancy/odd objects laying around?

Looks like one your old pizzas

 

[A1X]

BRAAAAAINS

 

[WATFORD zero]

I do have a few cool 50's/60s 'classics' if not antiques, but probably worth a few bob

 

[Beach Hut]

Top attention seeking

 

[Cotton Socks]

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Today I sold my conserved human brain - some old education stuff - for ca £200. Probably not the best deal I've ever done but one of the most difficult. For some reason, Facebook seems to have a negative attitude towards people who sell human remains.

Probably the coolest "old shite"-stuff I've found and sold so far.

Anyone else got some cool/fancy/odd objects laying around?

Please explain this in more detail. What exactly is in that 'box' and why & how did it get there?

In answer to your question I have an old stop watch that I've managed to work out was from the navy and an old tram/railway ticket 'puncher'. I overwound the stopwatch timing eggs, but the ticket puncher still worked and 'tinged' when I last tried it. That's it really.

 

[marlowe]

I have a human skull which I found uprooted in a graveyard following the great storm of 1987

 

[Han Solo]

Please explain this in more detail. What exactly is in that 'box' and why & how did it get there?

In answer to your question I have an old stop watch that I've managed to work out was from the navy and an old tram/railway ticket 'puncher'. I overwound the stopwatch timing eggs, but the ticket puncher still worked and 'tinged' when I last tried it. That's it really.

Its a glass box filled with some liquid and the different numbered parts of a human brain. On the side of it, there's a key to the numbers.

I also managed to find this sick lung originating from some German museum:

These two masterpieces, along with a bunch of other stuff, were found in the basement of a school that ceased to exist and couldn't be arsed getting rid of their stuff. Happy to help them.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I've got some of Gary Moore's guitar pedals.

None of his guitars though.