Since our member base (and its interests) is quite cosmopolitan, I often wonder what passes for 'unusual' these days.
Simply put, what do you consider to be your most unusual item ?
Ritchie's full-size movie robot immediately comes to mind...but mine is probably a working photo booth, salvaged from the boardwalk on Coney Island.
Anyone else?
Don't have to many unusual things, I think I have a samurai sword though. :)
The shed skins (exo skeletons actually) from a few of the tarantula spiders I used to breed. They are carefully prepared and set in deep frames that seal them from the outside.
The one I have from a female Theraphosa Blondi is always stirring people's imagination. In real life it was docile and ended up in Goteborg Terrarium in Sweden after it had "babies" twice. It's size is about 6 inches from front legs to hind legs. I was never able to save any of the shed skins after they got any bigger than that.
I have a few oddball things in my collection thanks to a Mother who is the master of bizarre handicraft and eBay stocking-stuffer shopping.
I have:
To give you an idea of some of my mother's work; she always makes a customized crochet stuffed toy for when new grandchildren are born. My first nephew got a detailed plush Godzilla doll. My first niece got a detailed, and easily-recognizable plush Spock doll. My second niece got an anatomically correct and dissectable frog. The stomach could be opened and the internal organs were all individual made, correctly placed, correctly colored, and removable. Lungs, stomach, intestines, liver, and more...
I have a pressure flaked spearhed that is a few hundred thousand years old!
Then there is a flute that my dad made from a piece of bamboo (that realy works BTW)
And a 6 inch in diameter 1/2 in thick cut of a petrified tree.
other than that I have 2 Sega dreamcasts! (one working and one BNIB never been used!) I boughtthe second one as a backup for $25 from gamestop after Sega got out of the game!
I have a Spearpoint too, but I'm not sure of the age. I found it in NorthEast Texas near Pittsburgh. My grandfather has 100 acres of land North of Mount Pleasant that has a number of Indian(?) mounds on it, and has found numerous points, scrapers, potter shards, and a lot of flakes from worked flint.
I've got a Dreamcast, but it doesn't work at the moment. I think it just needs a good cleaning though...
My Nixie Tube Clock is pretty unusual. (6 second exposure)
Full size image: http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q146/atbglenn/Nixie%20Clock/?action=view¤t=MyNixieTubeClock.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube
It’s from the year 1981 and probably still valid.
I also have a nixie tube clock, on my iPhone. It was the very first app that I downloaded. I always wanted one, but didn’t have. Back in the 70’s a surplus electronics dealer in Massachusetts called B&F Enterprises sold a kit that had to be put together.
Here is a picture of my first cell phone along with the iPhone running the Nixie Tube Clock app
That phone runs on a lead acid battery and weighs about 25 lbs. Even back then (1982) Radio Shack sold cell phones.
Cost about $2000.00!
I remember the plan $80.00 a month for 100 minutes. 40 cents a minute after that. I tried to keep the charges at $250.00/month
An explosion shaped piece of about 1” plate
Former surface of the plate shown here
As far as I can remember “back in those days”, this was molded by POM 87 94 which is a shaped charge mine.
My Premier railway lamp seems to freak people out the most. When asked if they would like to see the beautiful flame or smell the tin of carbide they go a bit quiet and weird.
I remember building three of these from Tandy Kits, really wish I had kept one 
The flashlights I have are weird, to everyone else
A working CDV-700 Geiger Counter!
Stone arrow heads, Civil War bullet, ash from Mt. St. Helens eruption (which I experienced). Nothing too unusual really I guess.
I found this in a pack of Sylvania 60 W bulbs years ago. 
I don’t have much, so nothing I can think of.
Because I move a lot, everything I own I can pack into my car in 30 mins or less and be gone.
Not sure I have much that is worthy of this thread, but I’d really love to get myself one of those Nixie tube clocks. Very cool 
I have a 1950 ish lacorda watch that still keeps time. Not worth much but………….
I have my first knife I was given when I joined Scouts. Didn’t last there long but I kept the knife. They didn’t appreciate my fire lighting ability.
I have a mint Mitchell 301 fishing reel. Never been used.
I have some beer bottles that are dated around 1900. Lots of other oddities.
Jealous.
I don’t have one yet, but I have had this one on order for many months now:
And I already have a 12 pack of backup tubes. (anxious are we?)
