Most unusual item you own

I'm sure/hope I have other more unusual stuff, but a favorite is my "velvet Elvis".  More like a smooth fabric, but anyway... I made an art project of it.

I have a drill press made by my grandfather of scrap. It includes the lower unit from a 1930's outboard motor.  He built it in the early 1940's.  It still runs.  It has a lot of gear reduction using multiple belts and this outboard motor part so he could drill steel at low speed.  During the war, high speed tool steel was not available. He needed to be able to run conventional bits at very low RPM, like 10-20 RPM.  The rest of the thing is just a marvel of re-purposed stuff. He was a machinist. I wish I had known him longer.  I was 3 when he died.

TW

A key to a lock box with somewhere around $30k worth of Magic: the Gathering cards in it...

And some Fight Club soap.

My grandfather was also a machinist back in the day. He made several really cool things, including this press camera. In homage, I bought some sheet film, took some photos, and developed them.

He died when I was 12, and I always wished I could have had an adult conversation with him.

First thing that comes to mind: a chain dog.

The area I'm from used to be center of a huge cypress lumber industry in the early part of last century. These these were use to connect logs together to float them to the lumber mill. Every once in a while you can still dredge one up. My grandfather on my father's side was a crew boss for lumberjacks.

Second thing I think of, from the same grandfather, is a set of brass knuckles that were issued to him in World War I.

Arcade stuff:

DDR/ITG  machine, a Pop'n Music arcade game, and some some art such as pinball posters. The unusual one would be the kick plate decal for a Galaga machine, unused new old stock (framed.)

I have a peice of driftwood that looks exactly like an orangutang.  Being from the 60's I even macrameyed a vine looking piece for it to hang from.  

I have another piece of driftwood that is a dolphin with eye and tail. 

Ok I know what you are all thinking, and it is medicinal. 

Wow, that camera shows some incredible wood and metal working craftsmanship.  I checked out your Flickr pictures.  You obviously got the photography gene.  I have my father's cameras.  I should share some pictures of his stuff.  No Leica's but there is an original Brownie (the one with the folding bellows).  He also had a Claris which has a Leica lens.  It is a post war camera made before the German camera body factory was running.  

TW