What Is The Oldest Thing You Own?

A Freeper | 2/15/2016 | jy8z

[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.

[jy8z]

As for me... I have a late 1800's Elgin railroad pocket watch passed down through family members from my grandfather. It is the centerpiece of all of my collectibles.

[Mr. Mojo]

My 1850 Large Cent.

Probably worth about $20.

[big'ol_freeper]

I own the natural rights from the natural law that date from the beginning of time

[Jhadur]

I ought to say my home, but it’s actually an 1858 Flying Eagle penny...but it was close.

[Scrambler Bob]

I have a rock. Picked it up when I was a kid.

[ClearCase_guy]

The head of an MS-13 gangbanger.

It’s a long story.

[jessduntno]

I have a trick a got from the book.

[AuntB]

How fun! I’d never thought about it before.

Some old letters from the Civil war I suppose. Or my grandparents coffee mill from about 1890.

[papineau]

A silver Greek coin from around 300 B.C.E.

[heights]

My wife.

[ClearCase_guy]

Oh, sorry. I though you said “oddest”.

[Windflier]

An 1895 silver dollar.

[Vendome]

My body...

[Dilbert San Diego]

Oldest thing I own in a portable AM/FM/shortwave radio I got in 1980. I still use it everyday. Its so old it only goes up to 1600 on the AM band, instead of 1700. But I have no interest in the handful of stations between 1600,and 1700, anyway.

[softwarecreator]

What Is The Oldest Thing You Own?

I received a copy of Bruce Lee's book "Tao of Jeet Kun Do" brand new in 1975. Still have it, and it's in pretty good condition considering I was a kid when I got it.

[left that other site]

A mahogany bookcase my grandfather had. Unfortunately i don’t have the books that filled it that I remember when visiting him. Shakespeare, poetry, etc.

[servantboy777]

My head full of gray hair. lol

[ETL]

The hydrogen atoms in my body. They’re over 13 billion years old.

[nascarnation]

I have a chair that was manufactured during 1860s and owned by a Civil War veteran.

[Duchess47]

Robinson Crusoe in French, 1798