Antiques Admirer Gifts

Acme Slide Rules: 'We'll be here and ready, when the current electronic gadgetry fad fades!'

'WHOA, don't touch that Billy! THAT'S my dad's precious family Air-loom!' A kid messing around with an Heirloom in the form of a floating Loom .

'This is one of our most recent vintages!'

Second hand furniture.

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

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

"Oh, wow! Is that stunning or what?" "Mid-century classic. Should be in a museum. Let's pee on it." "Totally."

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

Dynasties - Ping, Ching, Ming.

A child at a museum starts to pull the wrappings off a mummy.

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'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

'I'd like to match this credenza.'

Riverboat 4 Square Hustlers

"I always thought of my childhood home as being larger."

Piles of trash discarded by ancient people are a rich source of artifacts for archaeologists. I unearthed garbage dumps that advanced our understanding of prehistoric societies. On the island of Crete I found ancient trash that increased our knowledge about the Minoan people. And I recently uncovered informative Celtic rubbish. Please stop saying studying ancient cultures by what they threw away is "junk science"!

Museum. Hours. You're donating your collection of pre-Columbian art? Yes! What's Mayan is yours!

"Attention, everyone! I'd like to introduce the newest member of our family."

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

'My - You've matured, my dear.'

'Stove Top Stuffing! My favourite!'

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

Posh Easter Egg

"It was her mothers"

Souvenirs.

Auctioneer: 'Sold to the lady whose husband just walked out!'

Egyptian Mummy/Egyptian Mummy and Toddler.

"The keep saying unrestored and what a nice PATINA, Ted. A better-sounding word for old tarnished stuff would be SCRINCH or SKRITCH, don't you think, eh, Ted?"

Teddy Roosevelt

Too young for the sixties, too squeamish for the seventies, too unambitious for the eighties, too technophobic for the 90s, too poor for the '00s, too old for the 'teens."

Dog finds a nice bone at the 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."

Grandfather Clock

"I'm still looking, sir?"

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