Ancestor Aficionado Gifts

"This is your great-great-great-great grandfather Felipe. If he was alive, he'd be a very famous man."

Second hand furniture.

'It's genuine 17th century satsuma - and the pair would have been worth ?14,000.'

"When are they going to change the 'feature'?"

"My great-great-grandfather was forced to flee Europe because of religious persecution."

Dynasties - Ping, Ching, Ming.

"Could you tell me how to get to cedar grove, New Jersey? I want to see where my grandfather was born."

"...We've traced your lineage all the way back to a 15th-century East European Count."

'I'd like to match this credenza.'

'This book is so rare it's never been published.'

'Have you any idea just how little this is worth?'

Inventor of the Tudor spirit-level

"My goodness, no! Grandfather would never, ever let us near this!!"

"Call yourself a fortune teller? I've never even heard of the Cairo museum!"

"Now we're leaving the hall of stuff we stole from other cultures and entering the hall of stuff we paid too much for."

"At the Christmas Artifacts Museum"

"He's our back-up if our computers fail."

'I was 'Sweatin' To The Oldies', and I flipped over on my back!'

Johannes Gutenberg

A new meaning in the Roman

Grandfather Clock

'One of my forebears.'

Capt. Ahab's landlocked brother Morab, searching for the white elephant.

Lady visiting the 1862 International Exhibition fands that the omnibuses ruin her crinolines

Restored antique carriage in A.D. 2500

'Sorry, I'm married to that one.'

'My husband's ancestors did come over on the Mayflower. The scraped them off the bottom of the boat.'

'Thrilling news yesterday; my nephew's got the Lascaux Caves commission.'

"Everyone here is alive because I got laid."

"One day son, all this will probably belong to some little floozy you'll marry."

'It's a coat of arms, not a logo.'

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