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What Is The Oldest Thing You Own?
A Freeper | 2/15/2016 | jy8z

Posted on 02/15/2016 6:24:28 PM PST by jy8z

I saw this question posed by a fellow FReeper in answer to another Freeper today. I thought it would make for an interesting topic. I do not remember who it was so I can't attribute it to them.


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KEYWORDS: antiques; vanity
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To: jy8z

Somewhere I’ve got a magazine (the paper kind, not the gun kind) from the 19th century. I think it’s from around 1879 though I haven’t looked at it in years. And a pair of antique typewriters from my grandfather’s estate. The older one is probably circa 1905 or so.


41 posted on 02/15/2016 6:34:11 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( My true feelings about 0bama would get me banned ))))
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To: jy8z

I have a rock...which has been a rock, since before Adam and Eve too.....


42 posted on 02/15/2016 6:34:22 PM PST by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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To: Scrambler Bob
I have a rock. Picked it up when I was a kid.

Meteorites are older than any rock original to earth. They're believed to be as old as the solar system, around 5 billion years.

43 posted on 02/15/2016 6:34:37 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

In my basement, who knows. I’ve run across antiques and military surplus on Ebay for years and sometimes got a deal or two.

One is a steel “pot” helmet with a camo cover. No idea how old it is, WWII era probably.


44 posted on 02/15/2016 6:34:52 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: jy8z

A clothing pattern sheet from the mid 1850’s. The clothing pattern (a ladies jacket) was to be traced off, seam allowances added and assembled (by hand). There were no instructions. Any alterations had to be made on the fly.

Other side of that same sheet contained tracings for embroidery to be done on the jacket.


45 posted on 02/15/2016 6:34:52 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: papineau

Beats me. Though I’ve a coin from the time of Constantine.


46 posted on 02/15/2016 6:34:57 PM PST by onedoug
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To: jy8z
I have a small shard of petrified wood.

How old is that?

47 posted on 02/15/2016 6:35:01 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: ETL

Hehehe! Clever!


48 posted on 02/15/2016 6:35:20 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: jy8z

A dresser built about 1830.


49 posted on 02/15/2016 6:35:48 PM PST by odawg
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Like minds...


50 posted on 02/15/2016 6:35:59 PM PST by heights
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To: jy8z

A large clam fossil. Not sure how old, but beautiful.


51 posted on 02/15/2016 6:36:08 PM PST by Thorliveshere
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To: jy8z

I have some pottery shards that I found in the desert at least 500 years old.

Then I have a several documents from 1724. One signed by Stephen Sewall. He was the Witch trial judge’s brother, Judge Samuel Sewall. Stephen was a court recorder in the Witch trials. He took in Samuel Parris’s daughter. Parris was the Reverand in the Salem Witch Trials and his daughter was the little kid who started it all when she had a seizure and they claimed she was bewitched. Also signed by Sewall’s wife and son.


52 posted on 02/15/2016 6:36:24 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: jy8z

A widow’s mite from the time of Jesus Christ.


53 posted on 02/15/2016 6:36:38 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: jy8z

Six pewter plates from family, around 1780, plus my US citizenship bestowed upon me by twenty three ancestors, maternal,and paternal, who fought in the American Revolution.


54 posted on 02/15/2016 6:36:45 PM PST by Toespi
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To: jy8z

I have a Morgan Silver Dollar which my Uncle gave me when I was a baby. It is dated 1887. I looked it up several years ago and it is only worth around $15.

I also have a flint spear point which I found on Daddy’s property near DeFuniak Springs. No idea how old it is but it is probably pretty old.


55 posted on 02/15/2016 6:37:33 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: jy8z
My wife on a visit to her home country England saw coins for sale and one was only the equivalent of 20 cents. It is a George 111 penny. Very cheap because worn thin and encrusted with years of dirt. Date 1771.There is his head and a Britannia on the reverse.

The blighter lost us the Americas. (laugh)

56 posted on 02/15/2016 6:37:39 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: jy8z

Some earth I dug up in my back yard over 4 billion years old


57 posted on 02/15/2016 6:37:48 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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To: jy8z
Most of the rocks lying around on the property I own washed down from the Colorado National Monument. The oldest of these are Precambrian, about 1.7 billion years old.
58 posted on 02/15/2016 6:38:02 PM PST by snarkpup (My goal in life is to die of old age before the country does.)
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To: jy8z

Nice idea for a thread-
I own an 1868 Swiss Vetterli Rifle. Lusted after one for years. It’s changed a bit- there’s a modern bolt and nut on the inside, and I’ve converted it to center-fire in order to actually shoot it.


59 posted on 02/15/2016 6:38:02 PM PST by TexasBarak (I aim to misbehave!)
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To: jy8z

I have a saddle on my guitar made of mammoth tusk.


60 posted on 02/15/2016 6:38:10 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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