What is the oldest thing you have in your house?

[hbk4894]

the oldest thing i have is a cook book that i have had since 1990/2000 , also have school reports from primary school so 2001/2002 , also have my high school reports from 2004 and a cook book they give you in high school from 2004.

 

[AllyRose]

the oldest thing i have is a cook book that i have had since 1990/2000 , also have school reports from primary school so 2001/2002 , also have my high school reports from 2004 and a cook book they give you in high school from 2004.

There's this vine plant thing in my cellar. It's... oh God! It's alive! F-

 

[AllyRose]

oh Fuck!!! Not There!!!

Someone! Help!

 

[Que]

Soon it will be my 1890's couch.

 

[trysail]

Coal from Mingo County, West Virginia
(Matewan seam, Middle Pennsylvanian epoch, ~298-323 million years old)


Sandstone picked up whilst canoeing down the Green and Colorado Rivers.


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[Balladeer08]

Me.

By a long shot.

 

[Lancecastor]

Judging by Killsmoot's latest drama thread, there are a lot of old husbands kicking around the GB Grrls' homes.

 

[oggbashan]

Some of the fossils, including fossilised shark's teeth that are several million years old.

Man-Made?

A Neolithic hand axe.

Some (genuine) Roman coins from 1st Century BC.

Earliest Book - 1666

Earliest Newspaper - 1740s

Earliest Photograph - 1850s

Earliest Recorded Music - 78 rpm from 1890s.

Edited to refer back to the original post:

Things I have owned a long time.

My WW2 Identity Card (and gas mask!).

Souvenir Coin I was given at the 1951 Festival of Britain.

Souvenir Book I was given for the 1953 Coronation.

Children's Book - The King of the Golden River with Doyle illustrations 1880s, given to my eldest aunt, which she passed on to me, along with a battered book about London from the 1750s.

 

[parodyluvr75]

Antique sewing machine from early 1830 something.

 

[Noor]

I am not sure, I would say it's the actual house built in the 1880's.
I have some old sewing machine parts, shuttles and spindles from the 1800's, a Tzarist samovar complete with seals from before 1905 but during Nicolas II.

 

[Noor]

Antique sewing machine from early 1830 something.

I might have some parts for that, what is it? First Singer was in 1851, but there were earlier machines.

http://ismacs.net/sewing_machine_history.html

 

[Noor]

Oh, I didn't think about roman glass, fossils or coins. I have some of these things. Also old weird furniture pieces, silver, art some where. Inherited stuff.

 

[Aquagal]

I have some French gun from WWI. Some of Grandma's jewelry is over a 100 yrs old. The armadillo purse is at least 60 yrs old.

 

[doowdniw]

Long case clock from the 1830s.

 

[pointless]

my house.

 

[dolf]

the house is 400+
there are fossils.
and an antique violin.
an antique bible too.
a 50's coat & dress.

 

[coacheric]

the house is 400+
there are fossils.
and an antique violin.
an antique bible too.
a 50's coat & dress.

Other than myself

 

[parodyluvr75]

I might have some parts for that, what is it? First Singer was in 1851, but there were earlier machines.

http://ismacs.net/sewing_machine_history.html

It's called a domestic. It's in the cast iron and on the name plate. I could be wrong about the year, it's not readable, I'm going on the date my grand mother said. It was her mother's mothers, so I'd say the latest 1870s.

It's mechanically sound but needs a new belt.

 

[chillywilly2]

I have a silk shawl that some ancestor stole during the French Revolution...and a couple of hand planes a bit better than a hundred years old

 

[Todger65]

My wife,

No the rocking horse beats her. It's from around 1890

 

[AllyRose]

:lights a cigarette:

Phew. That was good. I'm glad no one came to my rescue.

 

[KUJACK]

the oldest thing i have is a cook book that i have had since 1990/2000 , also have school reports from primary school so 2001/2002 , also have my high school reports from 2004 and a cook book they give you in high school from 2004.

Myself

 

[RedAllan]

:lights a cigarette:

Phew. That was good. I'm glad no one came to my rescue.

Were there tentacles?

 

[butters]

Oh, I didn't think about roman glass, fossils or coins. I have some of these things. Also old weird furniture pieces, silver, art some where. Inherited stuff.

a fossil fishy - around 48-50 million years old

some amethyst - no idea how old

apart from that, just books but they're only from 1870's onwards

 

[pointless]

Were there tentacles?

don't engage it! IT'S THE PLANT!!!!!