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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Just discovered an old bible (1852) in loft

« on: December 06, 2011, 02:18:54 pm »

Theres 3 different names in it that ive seen upto now. To be brutally honest id love to keep hold of it and give it one of the kids when  there older but its not the right thing to do is it? If i found a relative which name would you use out of the 3. Theres one in the front of the bible 1854 the oldest, then there is another name on some peices of loose paper inside, then another name on a prayers card. Would you say it should go to the family of the first owner of it or the most recent?

My other half is under the impression its been left in the loft and found by the next owner, and so on and so on but i think shes just being superstitious (she wants me to put it back in loft and leave it where it was, so she doesn't "come down stairs to cups flying about the room" to use her words :-)

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Antique Questions Forum / Just discovered an old bible (1852) in loft

« on: December 06, 2011, 11:58:43 am »

Hi,

I hope im in the right place, have been looking through some of the older threads and most of the topics are furniture, coin related by the looks of it, just looking for a little advice or maybe someone else will find it interesting too? Its probably not classed as an antique, but with it being fairly old im in hope somebody on here might take an interest.

Ok well i went up in our loft for the xmas decorations, the hatch to the loft is tiny so for years ive just put stuff around the edges with it being a tight squeeze to get my actual body inside. Anyway the decorations had fallen so i had to for the first time get in (when i say get in stuck my upper torso in) so as you can imagine its VERY dirty nobodys been up there for years and years. Anyway i looked inside the first bag and saw this book, quite possibly the biggest book ive ever seen. I got it down and saw that it was a Holy Bible. I was amazed straight away and couldn't put it down, there are what appear to be newspaper cuttings stuck inside on random pages, every time i look through it i find new peices of paper, or old leaves that have been put inside. Some were old recipes, theres also some 'Tickler's jam' labels inside, which after looking on the internet it seems that this was part of a ration in the days of the war. I've found out the year of the bible after scratching my head for 2 days, it from 1852. It says at the bottom MDCCCLII which i found out is roman numerals. I haven't had the time to go through it all yet and im sure there will be bits of clippings or other interesting peices inside (it really is big) so im going to do that as soon as i get time.

It was printed by William Tyler, bolt court, fleet street, london.

Ive had a look online myself and i think the chances are, its not worth much money? Im sure someone on here would be able to tell me for sure. If thats the case, ill still have a good look through and find it very interesting all the same. To see a label off a pot of jam from the world war amazes me and ive never been interested in things like that before. Oh one other thing ive found in there upto now is a 'Mothers union member ship card'. You'll see it on one of the pictures, its a big A4 type sized card with prayers printed on it and its dated 54. So whether thats 1954 or 1854 i couldn't be sure.

Anyway my girlfriend isn't really that interested and neither are any of my friends so i was hoping i might be talking in the right place to find someone who is even slightly interested 



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