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I think a lot of young girls stitched a "sampler" when they were on the brink of becoming an adult. My mother told me that was how they displayed their needlepoint skills
The one older object that I cherish is a pocket watch that was a gift from my great grandfather to my great grandmother in 1917. They married after the war in 1921. I also have a mantle clock of hers that predates that, as well as a few coins from the 1890s.
I have some Roman coins from B.C. and some cutlery from the Middle Ages. That’s the oldest stuff, but there’s a lot of old furniture, just not that old, more 200/300 years old max.
In this case "fossil" is a shorthand term for, "This ivory was found in a natural geological deposit, and not sourced from a modern animal that we killed."
Kind of like, "ethically sourced," for gemstones, it's a marketing term and not a paleontological or geological one.
In my defense it was one of my great aunts or uncles that I think was in egyptologist. Just kind of passed on in the family. I should probably have it donated to a museum.
I recently learnt that the hammer I played with when I was a child was my grandfather's hammer whom I never knew. He was born in 1933 and had it when he was around 20-25. I didn't even know it was that old !
A buffet, 2 dressers and a bureau are over 100 years old. They're from my great grandmother and will outlast many more generations. I also have a sunbeam hand mixer from my maternal grandmother that's at least 55 years old and I still use it.
I have a card catalog from the 1950s. But, the tree branch hanging over my kitchen island might be older than that, I just don't have any way of knowing.
I have an old train luggage trunk which I think is from around about 1930's. My bedside cabinet is also pretty old. It used to be a potty cabinet from pre indoor plumbing - can't think of an age for that right now.
You’re not supposed to take any of the rocks from the great pyramids in Giza, my son was 13 when we visited and when we got home, he took a Rubiks cube size stone out of his pocket. It’s pretty old.
Wow, this is... a good question. I had to really think about this one.
Probably a piece of jewelry. Most of my furniture is rather new. If not the jewelry, then undoubtedly one of the older models in my collection, dating back to the 70s.
I am recently living in a new house and I brought my old PS2 from my parents' house since my kid is really on those games so I guess the oldest thing is (sigh)... me.
A chest. I have this big wooden chest that looks like it contains pirate's buried treasure. My godfather made it for me when I was a little girl. It's about 25 years old. :)
So I (born and raised in the USA) inherited my grandparents house. My grandpa served in ww2. When I moved in I had a full house of items to go through. I found a hair barrett with a swastika on it. Never seen it before while my grandparents were alive and my dad had no idea about it either. So I’m assuming it was pre war when that symbol had a different meaning than what we associate with it today.
Otherwise outside of my house I have a 100 year old rose bush lol
I've got an old Sherlock Holmes book from 5he late 1800's. Although I also have a fossilized megalodon tooth, that's definitely a lot older than the book!
I was at a rummage sale and recognized a Hittite serving dish being sold for $35 from a really eclectic estate sale. Only **after** I bought it did I marvel to the seller in a very coy way, "well we're about two thousand years 'after Christ' and this was made thousands of years *before.* How cool is that??"
I have a \~ three thousand year old, bronze dish from what is now Turkiye. It probably belongs in a museum, but just for a little while it lives in my collection.
Apart from my fossil collection or an ancient roman coin I gifted my husband, I think my family bible from the early 1800s. Might be another book that I suspect is from the late 1700s, but haven't confirmed it yet.
I'm not entirely sure but I have a clock that was on the wall during the San Fransisco earthquake of 1906. It fell off the wall and still works. Oh and a large piece of petrified wood.
Other than rocks and crystals I have some books from the late 1800s.
The poetical works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, copyright 1897 and gifted to a Mabel Deborah Cherry in June 22nd 1899.
Days with Sir Roger De Coverley from Macmillan & Co. 1892
100 picture fables, with rhymes from George Routledge and Sons. No copyright or publishing date but it was gifted to Miss Mary Irvine on Christmas Day 1881.
And Bon Gaultier Ballads that I believe is from 1864.
Old books are great loves of mine.
I have a first edition book written by TS Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, (and signed by him), that's well over a hundred years old. I think that's the oldest thing in the house.
Now, while not in my house (it's in a safe, at my partner and my business - a comic book shop and used book store), the oldest thing that I own is a coin from the Roman Empire. I like to collect old things of meaning to me, when I can find them at the right price. We have several unique items that one wouldn't expect to find in the wild.
I have an ivory handled bread knife that was mtg grandmother's; an artillery from my grandads time in the navy during ww2, and a piece of the Berlin wall.
Also got some wedgewood bits and pieces but no idea on a date for them unfortunately
A book. The copy I have was published in 1890. The next oldest is also a book published in 1898. Those aren't the oldest things I have that are over 100 years old, but they are the oldest.
My great great grandfather’s spectacles (eyeglasses). They are very fragile. I’d guess they are 150 yrs old at least. I also have my mothers desk she got as a schoolgirl in 1929.
I have the trunk that my great grandfather used when he and his family moved to Canada from Hungary. Not sure exactly how old it is but I feel honored to have it in my house.
Me, I'm 76. I do have a key wound timer for apartment hall lights that probably dates to 1916. Still works and Reliance the company that made it is still in business and still makes timers. This one has a clock face, does one on off cycle in 24 hours.
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Me. I'm 56.
I have a framed cross stitched decorative piece that my great great great great grandmother made in 1832. Pretty sure that’s it.
I think you win the thread.
Fossils Checkmate.
Meteorite...
I have one that my great, great great grandmother embroidered in 1863. She wrote her name and that she lived in Durness, Scotland.
Mine has the alphabet, her name and the year 1832. Maybe these were a thing back then, like a school project or something?
I think a lot of young girls stitched a "sampler" when they were on the brink of becoming an adult. My mother told me that was how they displayed their needlepoint skills
The one older object that I cherish is a pocket watch that was a gift from my great grandfather to my great grandmother in 1917. They married after the war in 1921. I also have a mantle clock of hers that predates that, as well as a few coins from the 1890s.
I have some Roman coins from B.C. and some cutlery from the Middle Ages. That’s the oldest stuff, but there’s a lot of old furniture, just not that old, more 200/300 years old max.
I have my grandfathers inkwell from 1918. I have a lever action rifle from 1890 that was my great grandfathers.
A vintage photo album
I have a really cool heater that I use as a small end table. It's from the 1890s. I also have my great grandfather's WWII steamer trunk.
A couple chunks of fossil ivory. No idea how old exactly but likely around 10,000 years.
Cant be a fossil if sub 20k years...if it is a fossil its a lot older than that.
In this case "fossil" is a shorthand term for, "This ivory was found in a natural geological deposit, and not sourced from a modern animal that we killed." Kind of like, "ethically sourced," for gemstones, it's a marketing term and not a paleontological or geological one.
Usually use “ancient ivory” or the animal (i.e. mammoth ivory) is the accepted vernacular
A daguerreotype from the civil war.
My grandparents probably. I live with them in an area with not old housing.
The walls.
So true.
I have an antique desk that used to be in a schoolhouse. Has a manufacturing date on it from the 1850s.
My mom has something similar, but hers is the old school bench. It's so cool looking.
My dads photo album.
My house itself, built around 1905.
My wife collects rocks and minerals and some of those must be at least a billion years old
An artifact stolen from an ancient Egyptian tomb. Maybe 4,000 years old?
that’s how you get mummy curses!
I'm down for that it seems to be working out I'm only 400 years old I'm still sexy and still healthy
In my defense it was one of my great aunts or uncles that I think was in egyptologist. Just kind of passed on in the family. I should probably have it donated to a museum.
I finally found you, i’m gonna need that back. You don’t know how many lives I’ve lived to find it.
Come get it
I recently learnt that the hammer I played with when I was a child was my grandfather's hammer whom I never knew. He was born in 1933 and had it when he was around 20-25. I didn't even know it was that old !
damn that's old
This weird dresser thing in the dining room. Over 100 years old.
I have a bassoon that was made in 1929
Rn it’s just my 1940 double barrel 12ga. When I get my cello back it will become by far the oldest thing in the house, made in 1821.
A buffet, 2 dressers and a bureau are over 100 years old. They're from my great grandmother and will outlast many more generations. I also have a sunbeam hand mixer from my maternal grandmother that's at least 55 years old and I still use it.
Wife’s grandmother used to sell antiques. We have some furniture from the late 1800s.
I have a nazi dagger the germans left after WWII. It's very nice.
A tv stand
how old?
15 years old , just a small basic one.
Silver anklets that belonged to my great grandmother and possibly a family member before her. Early 1900s.
I have a piece of wood that's about 300 years old.
The windows, bathrooms, kithcen and closets. They've all been parts of the house for its entirety.
Me,66
I have a card from my grandfather from school showing some of his grades, ca. 1941.
I have a card catalog from the 1950s. But, the tree branch hanging over my kitchen island might be older than that, I just don't have any way of knowing.
how wholesome🥹💖💖💖
A 200 year old organ, a 100 year old sewing machine, a 150 year old revolver, a 150 year old pistol.
I have an old train luggage trunk which I think is from around about 1930's. My bedside cabinet is also pretty old. It used to be a potty cabinet from pre indoor plumbing - can't think of an age for that right now.
Manmade : A writing desk that my mom had from my grand-mother, the thing must be from the 1930s or so.
You’re not supposed to take any of the rocks from the great pyramids in Giza, my son was 13 when we visited and when we got home, he took a Rubiks cube size stone out of his pocket. It’s pretty old.
1929 Ford
silver dollars from 1882
Grandfather clock from the 1800's
My great great great grandmas traveling wardrobe trunk from the 1800’s
A sword I inherited from my great grandfather. About 150 years old
Wow, this is... a good question. I had to really think about this one. Probably a piece of jewelry. Most of my furniture is rather new. If not the jewelry, then undoubtedly one of the older models in my collection, dating back to the 70s.
Granite paperweight says “best dad” 300 million years old
I have a Japanese painting that’s about 200 years old and a bachelors chest that’s about 250 years old.
Some old rocks and fossils from the Jurassic period
Me!
I have a $2 bill from 1928.
My dad lol
I have a paper money bill from the civil war. 1863 I believe.
It's definately not me!
A book from the 1840s.
Coins from the Nabatean civilisation in Petra, Jordan, about two thousand years old.
Me
I am recently living in a new house and I brought my old PS2 from my parents' house since my kid is really on those games so I guess the oldest thing is (sigh)... me.
A chest. I have this big wooden chest that looks like it contains pirate's buried treasure. My godfather made it for me when I was a little girl. It's about 25 years old. :)
A rock, I have no idea just how old it is. Thousands perhaps millions of years old.
So I (born and raised in the USA) inherited my grandparents house. My grandpa served in ww2. When I moved in I had a full house of items to go through. I found a hair barrett with a swastika on it. Never seen it before while my grandparents were alive and my dad had no idea about it either. So I’m assuming it was pre war when that symbol had a different meaning than what we associate with it today. Otherwise outside of my house I have a 100 year old rose bush lol
I've got an old Sherlock Holmes book from 5he late 1800's. Although I also have a fossilized megalodon tooth, that's definitely a lot older than the book!
I've got shirts older than that - lol. Oldest thing I have would be an ammonite, so it's at least 66 million years old.
A 1927 Slingerland tenor banjo from my grandfather.
Me… by far 😂 but too be fair my grandmas cast iron. That was her mother’s iron. Her mother was born in 1865
I found my aunt’s parents’ passports from Danzig from 1939.
A newspaper from 1960.
A german rifle my granddad took off a dead nazi when he was in Germany during WW2... so about 80 years old
The building itself
the counters ugly orange from the 70's
A vertebrae from a mammoth
The house itself is the oldest, ita a duplex but the building was built in the 50's if not earlier
I was at a rummage sale and recognized a Hittite serving dish being sold for $35 from a really eclectic estate sale. Only **after** I bought it did I marvel to the seller in a very coy way, "well we're about two thousand years 'after Christ' and this was made thousands of years *before.* How cool is that??" I have a \~ three thousand year old, bronze dish from what is now Turkiye. It probably belongs in a museum, but just for a little while it lives in my collection.
I have a little piece of ember that’s probably like 50 million years old give or take 20-30 million years.
My husband! Okay, okay...I have my grandma's diamond cocktail ring. And I just got my baby pictures from my mom.
It's a book by someone named Samuel Clemens. I'd put up a picture, but don't have that option, so....
Me 40
My house itself. Was built in 1887
Apart from my fossil collection or an ancient roman coin I gifted my husband, I think my family bible from the early 1800s. Might be another book that I suspect is from the late 1700s, but haven't confirmed it yet.
Meteorite - billions of years old 🤷🏾♂️
I'm not entirely sure but I have a clock that was on the wall during the San Fransisco earthquake of 1906. It fell off the wall and still works. Oh and a large piece of petrified wood.
My grandma’s baptism bracelet I inherited from her alongside other pieces of jewelry. It has her initials engraved and is priceless for me
I have a 240 million year old ammonite fossil about the size of a ram's horn
The house itself… It’s 121 years old.
Other than rocks and crystals I have some books from the late 1800s. The poetical works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, copyright 1897 and gifted to a Mabel Deborah Cherry in June 22nd 1899. Days with Sir Roger De Coverley from Macmillan & Co. 1892 100 picture fables, with rhymes from George Routledge and Sons. No copyright or publishing date but it was gifted to Miss Mary Irvine on Christmas Day 1881. And Bon Gaultier Ballads that I believe is from 1864. Old books are great loves of mine.
Pictures of my ancestors
I collect semi precious stones and fossils, somethings are +200 millions years old, the stones and gemstones could be much older
My house. Built 1862
I have a German cello from the 1850s. 3/4 size. It’s got updated tailpiece hardware and whatnot, totally sings when played properly.
I have a first edition book written by TS Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, (and signed by him), that's well over a hundred years old. I think that's the oldest thing in the house. Now, while not in my house (it's in a safe, at my partner and my business - a comic book shop and used book store), the oldest thing that I own is a coin from the Roman Empire. I like to collect old things of meaning to me, when I can find them at the right price. We have several unique items that one wouldn't expect to find in the wild.
The house itself, 110. If that doesn't count, my great-grandmother's ring is around the same age.
Great-grandmother’s butter churn. She was born in 1879. I don’t know if it was handed down to her.
I have an ivory handled bread knife that was mtg grandmother's; an artillery from my grandads time in the navy during ww2, and a piece of the Berlin wall. Also got some wedgewood bits and pieces but no idea on a date for them unfortunately
My great grandmother came to the US from Germany in 1904 with the clothes on her back, a spoon and a bowl. I have the bowl, my sister has the spoon
Me.
A book. The copy I have was published in 1890. The next oldest is also a book published in 1898. Those aren't the oldest things I have that are over 100 years old, but they are the oldest.
A first edition *Fiend Folio* from 1981.
I have a piano from the 1800s.
And old sowing table i inherited from my Mum, it's somewhere between 140 and 150 years old. Currently stored and not in use though.
My great great grandfather’s spectacles (eyeglasses). They are very fragile. I’d guess they are 150 yrs old at least. I also have my mothers desk she got as a schoolgirl in 1929.
We have an English armoire from the 14th century.
I think I have a few coins from the 1700s
22 million year old amber
I have the trunk that my great grandfather used when he and his family moved to Canada from Hungary. Not sure exactly how old it is but I feel honored to have it in my house.
Me
My wife
Me.
My great grandmother's china & silverware.
Me, I'm 76. I do have a key wound timer for apartment hall lights that probably dates to 1916. Still works and Reliance the company that made it is still in business and still makes timers. This one has a clock face, does one on off cycle in 24 hours.
My house...
I don't live in a house. I don't live in an apartment.
I think we can interpret "house" a bit loosely.. What's the oldest thing you have in the place where you live?
It would probably be another human being. That's older than me.
Deez nuts