Ancient relics

[JJ50]

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?

[Bust Nak]

[Replying to post 1 by JJ50]

The oldest thing I have is a mechanical pinwheel calculator from the 1950's.