Oldest things you own?

Motzart
Motzart Posts: 1,075
edited February 2009 in The Clubhouse
Just for fun.....what are the oldest things you own?

For me.....

Oldest mechanical item is a Terry and Andrews Steeple Clock (1842-45)
Founders of the Ansonia clock company that came in the late 1800's.
Yes it runs and keeps time!

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Oldest Paper item.......
An original B&W print/etching of Hiawatha Island in Owego NY....not far from me. (1839)

Here is a color version of the same print

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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,459
    edited February 2009
    I've got a few skulls from my first few donors......probably a 1000 years old, IIRC.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited February 2009
    I have a few old Philco radios. Some work, some don't, but all still look great.

    LOL Jesse!
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  • Motzart
    Motzart Posts: 1,075
    edited February 2009
    Keiko wrote: »
    I have a mummified **** from the Ming Dynasty.

    That's a bit too personal! TMI!!! :eek::D

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  • Motzart
    Motzart Posts: 1,075
    edited February 2009
    Face wrote: »
    I have a few old Philco radios. Some work, some don't, but all still look great.

    LOL Jesse!


    Ahhh yes......My Parents had some appliances made by them when I was a kid!

    Fridge and a Stove.......Philco was a sub of Ford Motor Company....which my Dad worked for at the time. Mid 1960's to early 1970's

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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited February 2009
    the oldest thing I own.. is probably my computer circa 2000 in human years,.. in computer years, that's like 87 yrs old :p
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited February 2009
    Motzart wrote: »
    Ahhh yes......My Parents had some appliances made by them when I was a kid!

    Fridge and a Stove.......Philco was a sub of Ford Motor Company....which my Dad worked for at the time. Mid 1960's to early 1970's

    My brother actually owns a Ford refrigerator...it's not a Philco Made by Ford or whatever...it's just a plain Ford. It has the Ford emblem on the front...the label on the back says "Produced in America by the Ford Motor Company"...crazy...

    The oldest thing I own is my bedroom furniture. Two dressers, bedframe and a vanity table thingy...I inherited it from my grandparents after they passed. It was handmade by my great grandfather in roughly 1905. It's all constructed of tiger striped rock maple. It's some beautiful furniture.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
    edited February 2009
    I've got about 4 ounces of steel from the hull of Titanic and WE, written and signed by Charles Lindberg in 1927
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited February 2009
    Union Officers Sword 1864-,,,family dinnerware,,mid 1700's,,family was given a land grant in South Carolina by the King of England,,,however the King was paid back,in a way that he was least expecting.;)
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited February 2009
    Actually scratch that. The oldest thing I own is currently in my parents attic stored away. My grandpa was a big Civil War buff, and collected tons of civil war books and artifacts and whatnot. Which I also inherited(along with the bedroom furniture).

    He had a bunch of artifacts recovered from Civil War battlegrounds. Anything from a spoon from a soldiers mess kit, to canteens that soldiers carried, to expended ammunition.

    There are also a couple original Civil War black powder rifles, and a couple swords. All of this stuff is circa.Civil War(1861-1865).

    It's all packed away right now, as I don't really have the room for it in my apartment. Once I buy a house though, I'll probably end up using it to decorate my office area or something of the such.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
    edited February 2009
    :D:D:Dthe dirt my house sits on is billions of years old:cool::cool::p
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited February 2009
    :D:D:Dthe dirt my house sits on is billions of years old:cool::cool::p

    He lies. I actually just brought him that dirt about a month ago. It's practically brand new.;) I made it from scratch myself, so I should know.:p:p
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited February 2009
    Actually scratch that. The oldest thing I own is currently in my parents attic stored away. My grandpa was a big Civil War buff, and collected tons of civil war books and artifacts and whatnot. Which I also inherited(along with the bedroom furniture).

    He had a bunch of artifacts recovered from Civil War battlegrounds. Anything from a spoon from a soldiers mess kit, to canteens that soldiers carried, to expended ammunition.

    There are also a couple original Civil War black powder rifles, and a couple swords. All of this stuff is circa.Civil War(1861-1865).

    It's all packed away right now, as I don't really have the room for it in my apartment. Once I buy a house though, I'll probably end up using it to decorate my office area or something of the such.

    Be sure to insure it.
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  • Motzart
    Motzart Posts: 1,075
    edited February 2009
    Actually scratch that. The oldest thing I own is currently in my parents attic stored away. My grandpa was a big Civil War buff, and collected tons of civil war books and artifacts and whatnot. Which I also inherited(along with the bedroom furniture).

    He had a bunch of artifacts recovered from Civil War battlegrounds. Anything from a spoon from a soldiers mess kit, to canteens that soldiers carried, to expended ammunition.

    There are also a couple original Civil War black powder rifles, and a couple swords. All of this stuff is circa.Civil War(1861-1865).

    It's all packed away right now, as I don't really have the room for it in my apartment. Once I buy a house though, I'll probably end up using it to decorate my office area or something of the such.

    WOW that sounds like some neat stuff!!!
    Seen some of that go threw the Antiques Roadshow on PBS....like was said INSURE it!
    I have various other things from the mid 1800's to very early 1900's......I just mentioned my very oldest.

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  • Motzart
    Motzart Posts: 1,075
    edited February 2009
    Lasareath wrote: »
    I watch a show named Antiques RoadShow and they showed this guy who collected Civil war Stuff. He had a Lieutenant Sword that was worth $30,000 and a Belt Buckle that was worth $35,000

    Maybe you should have that stuff appraised.

    Maybe this site will help you? http://www.civilwarpreservation.com/

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/index.html

    Civil War Belt Buckles: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/video/louisville_200704F02_wm.html

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts/louisville_200704F02.html

    I saw that too....forgot about those!!
    May very well have enough value there to BUY a house in cash with items left over.
    Adivise well given.

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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited February 2009
    I have a complete timelock assy from a bank vault door made for the Mosler Safe Co in 1890 by the Illinois Watch Co. All 3 movements still wind up and count down properly. The time pieces in each lock assy are actually modified railroad pocketwatch assy's all handmade. Ive been offered as much as 2 grand from watch collectors.
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  • timlitton
    timlitton Posts: 289
    edited February 2009
    One night I was visiting my grandparents. After dinner we sat down to watch some TV and began watching Antiques Roadshow. I asked my grandpa what the oldest thing in the house was.

    He looked down as he thought for a second. After a moment or two he looked back up, smiling, and said, "your grandma."
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  • Motzart
    Motzart Posts: 1,075
    edited February 2009
    timlitton wrote: »
    One night I was visiting my grandparents. After dinner we sat down to watch some TV and began watching Antiques Roadshow. I asked my grandpa what the oldest thing in the house was.

    He looked down as he thought for a second. After a moment or two he looked back up, smiling, and said, "your grandma."

    LMAO....shame on Him!! :D

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  • Motzart
    Motzart Posts: 1,075
    edited February 2009
    Ive been offered as much as 2 grand from watch collectors.

    Then you KNOW it's worth more!

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  • dfranks
    dfranks Posts: 207
    edited February 2009
    I have a pair of leather coverered woman's binoculars that belonged to my great grandmother when she was a child. Probably 1910.I have some old hubcaps off of a Chevy and a Dodge truck, 1940's.
  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited February 2009
    My grandparents left me a coin collection, it has some coins going back to the late 1700's (from Italy I think).
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited February 2009
    I have a pre-historic shark's tooth that is estimated to be 300-600 million years old.

    Oh, and a Rubiks Cube.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited February 2009
    But do you have a pre-historic Rubik's Cube? You know... the ones made out of ferns and fossilized raptor dung?
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  • timlitton
    timlitton Posts: 289
    edited February 2009
    But do you have a pre-historic Rubik's Cube? You know... the ones made out of ferns and fossilized raptor dung?

    See, the problem with that model was that all the squares were brown.
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  • edbert
    edbert Posts: 1,041
    edited February 2009
    We have an old English made dresser that was built in the late 1800's, early 1900's. You can actually see where repairs were done to it to re-attach portions that may have not held together initially. They have wood plugs to refill the holes so that everything still matches. I only noticed it recently after it being in our bedroom for about a year.
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited February 2009
    I found a great white shark tooth on the beach a few months ago. A teach at the school I go to told me it was fossilized and probably a few million years old or so.
  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited February 2009
    timlitton wrote: »
    One night I was visiting my grandparents. After dinner we sat down to watch some TV and began watching Antiques Roadshow. I asked my grandpa what the oldest thing in the house was.

    He looked down as he thought for a second. After a moment or two he looked back up, smiling, and said, "your grandma."

    Tim Thanks for bringing a smile to my face. I know for sure that is what my GrandFather would have said if I had asked him that question.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited February 2009
    My house. Built sometime in the early 1900's. I found a raffle ticket for a gold pocket watch, dated 1910, in one of the original walls. That's the oldest thing I've come across in it so far.
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  • CaligulaPolk
    CaligulaPolk Posts: 1,650
    edited February 2009
    my wife, she just turned 30 years old! :p
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,995
    edited February 2009
    my wife, she just turned 30 years old! :p

    Your sex life(or lack there of) will soon be the oldest thing if she reads this..;)
  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited February 2009
    My dad's 1st shotgun (single barrel 12 gauge), which he got at 10 years old, making it 50years old this year.

    I've also got some random medals from the Brits during WWI that I picked up at a flea market when we lived over there.

    Past that, we have a 2 man saw that apparently my great grandfather owned, so it is from the late 1800's.
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