Late 1800's Family Bible

Nov 5, 2014 6:56 PM

moemiso

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A double deliver!

Original Post: http://imgur.com/gallery/uN5rk

The Book

The holy tome! Shit is heavy. It's also falling apart so I had to be extra careful not to cause it any more damage.

Side view

Fresh out of banana's... so here is a small horse.

Taking a look inside...

Beautiful text

1 of 2 news clippings I found inside the book

Its from the Minneapolis Journal circa 1916.

The other news clipping...

Ol' Vic had a thing or two to say.

The relatives...

Patriarchs of days old

Don't sell that. Seriously. Take it to be reconditioned and pass that shit down. That's an heirloom motherfucker.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Do they even make bibles like this anymore? I ain't even religious and I'd love to own one.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"You got nothing out of the war except the flu and prohibition" Victor is one sassy chappy

12 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 0

As a german: My ancestors used "Mein Kampf" for this reasons instead of a bible ... jk ;)

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That carpet tho...super comfy.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My mom does genealogy so she'd freak

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I can't believe Bibles were like 6 times larger than horses in the 1800's.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My family bible was published in 1599 and was once baked into a loaf of bread to hie it when that edition was banned.

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I know exactly how big that horse is.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I read the word Minneapolis! Guys Minneapolis!

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It's almost Saint Paul!

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

FUCK YEA!

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is actually really cool. Thanks, OP :)

12 years ago | Likes 180 Dislikes 2

The John Alden mentioned in the clipping is my ancestor! *beams*

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Me too. Hello.. cousin??

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Holy crap! Hi cousin! :D Through which of his children? I'm through Elizabeth (married William Peabodie).

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's Ruth Alden for me. I'm related to her through John Adams supposedly. But I'm not really the genealogy addict in the family.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

that cover is dope

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

WHAT IF THAT HORSE IS REGULAR SIZED AND THE BOOK IS GIANT?!

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I need a big horse to scale that small horse

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So, is that horse 1:1?

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I love old stuff like this. The history within books and photos like these are amazing!

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

What translation is it?

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ours is from the 1700's

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh, hey, do people like old bibles? I've got a box of Gutenberg pages that were never collated ...

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

writing my apush outline while distracted by imgur, this is pretty cool

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is awesome. It makes me wonder if any of my possessions will still be around in 100 years.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It would not be circa 1916 if the churches gained 3 million members since then.

12 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Like the top part of the post said, it could be an old family Bible that family members periodically add things to.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

+1 for being honest about no bananas.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've got old photos of relatives as well

12 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

From the thumbnail, it looks like "Hobbit."

12 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

That's exactly what I saw too.

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I wonder if boys in the 1800's were just like "I can't wait till I can grow a mustache,i'll get all the bitches then".

12 years ago | Likes 1060 Dislikes 8

and again after smokey and the bandit.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

i believe it was more ill finally be a man and have the respct of my peers. a time when hounddogging was not peoples principal concern

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Them, and my dad from the 1970s onward.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, because boys who called women "bitches" back then had to muck out the barn. ...and then sleep in it.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

If this is true, I would be fucked. Just not literally. Kind of like right now, actually.

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

seth macfarlane's version of "if you've only got a mustache" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE5uCw7y7g4

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*Wenches

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We are like that now

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Step 1: Get biger Step 2: Shave my hed Step 3: Be black

12 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My mustache brings all the bitches to the yard. Damn right, Its better than Bartolomeu's

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

1980's too.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think it was more like, "I'll find a suitable line of work and a homely wife!"

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

this is the year ill finally get my mustache. no shave november do me good

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"If you've only got a mustache" written in 1864 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Zlv_s9jQU

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can confirm. I have a time machine.

12 years ago | Likes 119 Dislikes 1

One question: Are your smell related vegan identification powers related in anyway to your time traveling?

12 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

If so, can I join?

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes. Vegan scientists don't want you to know this, but time machines run on baby seals.

12 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

"You may not have the looks, you may not have the dash, but you'll win yourself a girl if you've only got a moustache!"

12 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

You beat me to it!

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

sauce: http://youtu.be/NE5uCw7y7g4

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As someone who can grow a mustache quite easily. I really wish they were more popular.

12 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 2

I can do full beard and stache.... Worth. It.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's cause these days you're automatically categorized as at least one of: unemployed, gay porn star, weird hipster hobbyist, pedophile.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Go east until you smell vodka, then go south for just a little bit. You're welcome.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My wife originally did not like my mustache. However, I kept it until it was odd to see me without one. Persistence won me a mustache.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Will use when I actually get in a relationship

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I like mustaches, I hope you're taking part in Movember!

12 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I am, but I'm still in molestache phase and I have a first date tomorrow. Imgur, what should I do!

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I always feel a bit off when this whole 'no shave' thing rolls around. Was I supposed to be shaving all the other months?

12 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

I wish to shake your hand for this comment. Congrats, good Sir. Keep up the great work.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Hey! Dont let anyone dull your sparkle! Girls always say they dont like em, but they do. I am almost sure they do.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Almost sure...

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I want to believe, I haveto believe.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

...and then we have Harry Berry there. At least he's got hair where it counts.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a history major.....gimmie.

12 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

As a conservator, I'd conservate the hell out of it. Like literally.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As another history major, I concur

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

As someone who find history interesting, and historical facts, relics, items, and places more interesting, me next

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

If you like "old" things, I do have an antique camera that belonged to my great-great grandparents: /a/DWvds

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

i feel like a small horse is the worst possible scale you could have used

12 years ago | Likes 1033 Dislikes 4

tIFU by laughing so hard I pooped skittle

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not as bad as using guitars to measure temperature.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That shit looks fake as fuck too, like it's been shopped or something haha

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

you mean, the best ?

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is it a duck sized horse? Because that would work

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah be a man.. or woman.. human.. and use a regular sized horse!!

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

For all we know that's the normal size for that breed of whores.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If by "worst" you mean "fooking awesomest!", then you sir, are correct.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

He could've used his penis

12 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

A viable option... if I had one. Cheers!

12 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

"I need to borrow your penis." "...Why?" "It's for scale."

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or the best.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Not so my friend!

12 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 0

Cheers! +1

12 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Y u do dis to me.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Duck sized horses

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Should have used a Banana

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought Jose was our backup.

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In response, OP replaces horse figurine with a sketch of a banana.

12 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 0

heard. ?1

12 years ago | Likes 103 Dislikes 0

aint even mad anymore OP

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

nice

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

goooood

12 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Damnit. Have my upvote.

12 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

that must be a giant bible

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dat illuminated page. <3

12 years ago | Likes 114 Dislikes 2

I thought you said Illuminati page and started looking for triangles

12 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

So did I!

12 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Never hurts to take a closer look. :P

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

RIGHT ME TOO

12 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm still looking for the illuminated page.

12 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0