Ancient Artifact Cabinet (and a few fossils & meteorites)

Somewhere along the way of collecting ancient biblical coins I was led on a detour into the world of ancient Holy Land oil lamps. Predictably, subsequent expansion occurred. Although coins are my main hobby, artifacts complement many of my coins -- and have become my secondary hobby.

Posting and describing each artifact here would be cumbersome for me and for all you CoinTalk ancient coin enthusiasts. So, I made this video of my display cabinet which allows the individual artifacts to be seen in context of the whole:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ntmHTX6VVMk

The top 3 shelves are in chronological order, left-to-right then top-downward.

Below the 3rd shelf the arrangement shifts to a different system.

The photo at the top is (left most) my wife and I, and (right most) the late Ken Baumheckel and his wife. In addition to Ken having been an extensive collector of ancient coins, he was also by far the most passionate ancient Holy Land oil lamp collector imaginable! Some lamps in my collection were acquired from his collection. Here is a link to a wonderful webpage kindly hosted by the Ancient Coin Club of Los Angeles that he authored: https://www.accla.org/actaaccla/oillamps2010.html

 

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Very nice. The Ammonite fossils are pretty neat too.

 

Stunning collection

 

I love it! I especially love all your artifacts. I only have a small replica oil lamp. Because I am away from home, I only have a small part of my fossil/rock collection with me. Some of the rocks are not necessarily special, but my 5-year-old son likes to give me rocks that he finds interesting.

 

Thank you so much for posting this, making the video, and providing the link to such an amazing collection. I had already seen a little of your display cabinet when you posted a picture of some of your oil lamps, a while back. Just wanted to say, thanks, my friend. I'm going to be looking at a video, then a link I've already saved to my home screen. Blessings, I love it!

 

Wonderful collection!

 

Those are the extra special rocks -- enjoy each one! :-D