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Reminds me a scene from "The man from earth", when asked for some kind of proof or artifact from the era, he asked if you would keep a pen if you lived a thousa

• kingcharles 5y ago
  That is one of my all time favourite movies/plays. It makes a good point though. I've lost all of my possessions twice in my life so far and I'm only in my forties. How many objects owned by your great-grandparents still remain in your family?
  • Ancapistani 5y ago
    Honestly, many that I’m aware of, and likely many more that I’m not. I have my great-grandfather’s .32 revolver, which he acquired in 1895. It came with the original holster, a couple of boxes of ammunition from ~1920, and a cased cleaning kit that he got with it. I have two of my great-granmother’s cast iron skillets - a #3 and a #9 Griswold. My wife has a quilt that her grandmother made by hand when she was a girl. It includes pieces made from the wedding dresses of at least five generations, going back to my wife’s grandmother’s grandmother. I have a tool chest that’s been passed down at least twice that I know of. My grandfather called it “Grandpa Metcalf’s toolbox”… it’s safe to say that the box itself is at least 150 years old, and many of the tools are likely older still. I’d expect that this sort of thing is much more common for rural families, who tend to live in one place for generations.