I love seeing random quirky objects that represent a glimpse into the life of a person. That's far more interesting to me than the documentation of big events.
Today I visited an awesome museum and a stately home. There were cases full of random, quirky curiosities. Things like the wax seals saved from letters. I wondered why they had been saved and what was written in the letters.
And this bullet that was found in an old oak tree, saved with a hand written note. I wonder what the person who wrote this would think if he knew that one day, it would be displayed in a museum.
Or this little horse that's been made from a conker and some dress making pins. It meant something at the time, a heartfelt gift from a child maybe.
@InstructHer wow, a 1000 year old sword, and you can still see the ornate pattern on it. What I think about is the kind of man it belonged to, what was he like, who were his family and what happened to mean his sword was found there in 1948.
We used to go abandoned house exploring. I used to have the same feeling. We'd come about school pamphlet that was at some point used by a child, or of magazines once read by someone, things. Things with not a lot of monetary value but things that were part of someone's life at some point. I always wondered about all the stories held withing those old walls.
@PatientlyWaiting25 It might sound a bit silly but it was like a big adventure. To think that all those things scattered around were like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that affe up to someone's life. You know what I mean?
It's lovely to see these glimpses into people's ordinary lives.
The note with the bullet suggests it dates from the 18C so might have been either fired in a duel or someone was using the then-young oak as a practice target.
@ArishMell I love that he noted that the tree that was felled had probably up to 150 years of growth and that was in 1878 so the bullet probably fired a hundred years or previous to that. It was big estate, and they were self sufficient for food so they were probably hunting deer or English longhorn cattle. ☺
