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We have several in our home, including me of course.
I would love to know the provenance of this key, which was discovered in my childhood home, it is obviously pretty 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.
Do other posters have any relics going back several centuries?
The oldest possession I have is a large black Mantle clock which was presented to my grandfather in 1900 by the Viennese Orchestra and some old music sheets of his.
This was given to me by my paternal grandmother when we left England in 1952 when I was 12. The book under the lion's foot translates as "Peace be with you, Marcus, son of the evangelist". I never saw grandma again.
We have several in our home, including me of course.
I would love to know the provenance of this key, which was discovered in my childhood home, it is obviously pretty 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.
Do other posters have any relics going back several centuries?
That pew would look lovely in my house Tara..I love that
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I don't have anything handed down to me but I have bought a few old items a little chest dating back to the late 1600s is oldest thing I think...and I live in an old barn now converted that dates way back.