Hmm. Probably some of my printed maps. Glancing at some, the oldest I notice is from 1911.
“How much value do this printed material hold for you?”
– Er… “quite a bit”? I like maps, and old things, and this one was given to me by my mom.
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“Kindly share reasons why you keep them.”
- This may not honor the “kindly” part of the request, but… this question makes me a wee bit upset that someone would think in a way that would ask this. My first thought is “Why the &#@% would people not keep old printed material? What, do people go around throwing out old printed material just because it’s “old”?”
- I keep it because it’s very interesting to me, I like it, and it is an artifact of the past, only so many of which exist, and even if I didn’t want it, I would feel it was terribly destructive to throw such things out simply because they’re old. It’s part of history. People who aren’t philistines appreciate such things, and non-philistines in future generations will appreciate them even more.
- As someone who occasionally creates fictional (usually game) content about the past, it’s also a great resource for (in the case of the map) what the lay of the land was like at that time, as well as what a person at the time could find out about what was there by buying such a map.