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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

Grandpa Johnson’s 1895 Belgian made side by side twin trigger twin hammer 12 gauge “stew pot gun”.

About $5 at the local hardware/blacksmith.


21 posted on 02/15/2016 6:31:08 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: jy8z

An 1844 novel by Benjamin Disraeli called “Coningsby”.


22 posted on 02/15/2016 6:31:10 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Vendome

“My wife”

Beat me to it.


23 posted on 02/15/2016 6:31:28 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: jy8z

Japanese naval-mountings katana of unknown age, pre WWII at least, likely much older.
Assorted books from the 1800s.

At some point it’s not so much as you owning it, as you being its caretaker for now.


24 posted on 02/15/2016 6:31:39 PM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: heights

Lol!


25 posted on 02/15/2016 6:31:44 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

An uncirculared 1854 2 1/2 dollar Liberty gold coin my Great Great Grandfather brought back home in the midwest from Sacramento that year. Put it in a bezel on a necklace and my wife wears it. It will go to our daughter.


26 posted on 02/15/2016 6:32:25 PM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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To: jy8z

Several meteorites that are millions of years old.


27 posted on 02/15/2016 6:32:35 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: jy8z

A hard bound book entitled “A Fools Errand (written by one of the fools)” first edition, published in 1867.

CC


28 posted on 02/15/2016 6:32:43 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: jy8z

Well, a number of arrowheads found by my dad and I from our farm (dates unknown) and our cannonball rope bed (which was from my family home) is inscribed “1843”.


29 posted on 02/15/2016 6:32:56 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: jy8z

Salvation... it’s about 2,000 years old now.


30 posted on 02/15/2016 6:32:57 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: jy8z

Probably a coin or a stamp. Nothing really valuable, but cool none the less.

Or maybe a book. I used to own an 18ll copy of The Federalist. I sold it. I have a some other early books. So...it is probably a book.


31 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:00 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: jy8z

1863 Tower Enfield musket.


32 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:02 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: jy8z

I own a Whitney Dragoon cap and ball pistol circa 1856. Passed down in my family since the war between the states. My Dad’s relative rode with McNeill’s raiders and was in the raid that captured General Crook. Reportedly my Dad’s relative liberated General Crook’s sidearm the Whitney pistol and it has been in our family ever since. Sadly I have not been able to trace the serial number to any records to absolutely tie the gun to Crook.


33 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:04 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Duchess47

A 1904 Emerson upright used piano that my grandparents bought my mother when she was only 4 years old in 1934....


34 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:10 PM PST by princess leah
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To: jy8z

I have a penny minted under King Edward I, “Longshanks” of “Braveheart” movie fame. From about AD 1300.


35 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:17 PM PST by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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To: jy8z

I’ve got a few old globes that Al Gore great grand parents owned that have the Antarctica as an Ocean, they showed them to Al Gore and told them they were from the future. That is a hint of what I owned and a joke built into it.


36 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:20 PM PST by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: pgyanke

Aww, I like your answer.


37 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:22 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: jy8z

I have the whistle and pop off valves from an 1890’s Case steam engine.


38 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:29 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

LOL!


39 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:38 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Uncirculated too.


40 posted on 02/15/2016 6:33:49 PM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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