What’s the most unbelievable thing you’ve held in your hands? – 17 objects that have blown people away

10.

’20 kilogram of pure gold. I used to work in gold mines in Western Australia and I was shown the process down to the gold pour. That bar was not much larger than a house brick’
-kiwirob56

11.

‘My phone, the moment it showed the first sale of an app I’d built. A total stranger paid for something I made. The phone itself is nothing special, but I’ve never held anything more unbelievable.’
-Severe-Tank-5252

12.

‘My newborn son’
-Ongeduldiger

13.

‘Used to be a penguin keeper, have to say, baby penguins. They’re the fluffiest beans.’
-readysteadytech

14.

‘my work ID card for the job i’ve wanted since i was 16’
-bobabitchhh

15.

‘A Neanderthal spear point made using the Levallois technique.

‘Holding a sophisticated tool made by another species (even if they’re a close relative) was incredible, and made me do a bit of a spiral about how fragile we are.’
-2dTom

16.

‘A piece of Jabba the Hutt.

‘As part of my uni course we had a member of the Jim Henson workshop given a guest lecture, and he brought out a piece of dark muddy foam rubber, and told us we could each hold it and pass it as long as we were very very gentle with it. He joked about it saying it was his retirement fund.

‘As we were carefully passing it around he revealed what it was and we were all in awe.

‘The class numpty dropped it on the floor and the guy was not amused.’
-Tangocan

17.

‘A piece of the Berlin Wall that my history teacher brought into class.’
-Kosmobugsia

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