Do you own anything made in a Country that doesn't exist anymore?

[Grey Fox]

Do share?

I own a hard boiled egg cutter made in West Germany.

[Syt]

West Germany, i.e. the Federal Republic of Germany (the official title) still exists, since the GDR just joined the FRG, i.e. it's the same country, just larger.

[Jacob]

I have a small cup made in the DDR.

[Zanza]

West Germany, i.e. the Federal Republic of Germany (the official title) still exists, since the GDR just joined the FRG, i.e. it's the same country, just larger.

The GDR was also always part of Germany, just under a different constitutional order. Germany considers itself the same country legally as the North German Federation that was founded after the Austro-Prussian War in 1867.

[Sheilbh]

I have a nik-nak from Yugoslavia.

[celedhring]

I have an old movie camera made in the DDR.

A Yugoslavian bank note.

And if I looked through my mementos from my Erasmus in the Czech Republic I guess I would find something made in Czekoslovakia.

[celedhring]

And does Catalan Republic stuff count, too? 

[Zanza]

Was  Catalonia ever really a separate country? It's not the same as Aragon I guess...

[Duque de Bragança]

West Germany, i.e. the Federal Republic of Germany (the official title) still exists, since the GDR just joined the FRG, i.e. it's the same country, just larger.

I find it even more grating in Paris or major cities where you don't have to go very far to find the official names as in embassies and/or consulates.
The Federal Republic of Germany (RFA in French) not existing anymore is a common misconception. I either remind people they are mixing up with the GDR/RDA or tell them to use (West) Germany instead since East Germany was a puppet régime. 

[Syt]

I still have somewhere a German language book (a novel about Spartacus) that was printed in the USSR in 1939.

[celedhring]

Was  Catalonia ever really a separate country? It's not the same as Aragon I guess...

Ok, speaking half-seriously. I can get technical and argue that Spain was formally a PU until the XVIIIth century  so I would have stuff (some family antiques) made in Aragon (a PU itself, too...).

Regarding if Catalonia was ever a separate country, the Catalan Republic briefly existed in the 1640s, I have stuff from the XVIIth century (documents) but I don't think from those exact dates. 

[The Larch]

Was  Catalonia ever really a separate country? It's not the same as Aragon I guess...

Maybe he means the short-lived (8 full seconds!) one from 2017. 

[celedhring]

Was  Catalonia ever really a separate country? It's not the same as Aragon I guess...

Maybe he means the short-lived (8 full seconds!) one from 2017. 

That was the joke, yeah 

[The Brain]

I have some souvenirs from my trip to the Soviet Union. Some stuff from the Tokugawa Shogunate, which I suppose probably counts as Japan. I generally don't own a lot of pre-17th century stuff, which would increase the likelihood.

[PDH]

Somewhere I have a small picture from the US in the 1850s when it was still a democracy.