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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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To: jy8z

I think the oldest thing I have is some Japanese scrip from WW2 that had been my dad’s. They are “Japanese pesos”, issued in the Philippines during the war.


61 posted on 02/15/2016 6:38:25 PM PST by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
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To: ETL

I do have a tiny piece of the Barringer meteorite.


62 posted on 02/15/2016 6:38:34 PM PST by onedoug
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To: jy8z

A Hall’s Rifle conversion from flintlock to percussion 1828 that was issued to Confederate troops in Corinth, Mississippi, prior to the Battle of Shiloh.


63 posted on 02/15/2016 6:38:42 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: PeaceBeWithYou
Several meteorites that are millions of years old.

Meteorites, unless from one of the rocky planets, and even then, are in the *billions* of years. Most are from the original material that the planets themselves were made. Our solar system is roughly 5 billion years old.

64 posted on 02/15/2016 6:38:50 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: jy8z

I have a coin from the Phoenicia-Tyre.

Shekel dated 1265BC-AD65 BU.


65 posted on 02/15/2016 6:39:02 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: jy8z

The rocking chair my grandmother rocked my father in when he was a baby, in 1932. Can’t date the chair itself exactly, but I have no doubt it is more than a hundred years old.

I have books that are older, but they don’t mean anything to me compared to the chair.


66 posted on 02/15/2016 6:39:32 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Donald Trump? Yikes!)
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To: jy8z

woolly mammoth ivory duck carving


67 posted on 02/15/2016 6:39:42 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: jy8z
I have a fern fossil I bought off ebay. I wanted to buy a fish but it was too pricey. My fossil is late Cretaceous about 66 million years old.

Now that I think about it, I still want a fish fossil or maybe a bird.

68 posted on 02/15/2016 6:39:47 PM PST by Varda
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To: jy8z

I have a rice bowl from the Song Dynasty, don’t know if it is Northern or Southern Song. Probably worth $150 or so, use it in tea ceremony.


69 posted on 02/15/2016 6:39:48 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: jy8z

I’ve got a friend who loves really old stuff like Roman era coins and shards of pottery and such. Myself? I’m much more modest in my collection, but some of it’s pretty cool.

An 1885 silver dollar

A large wooden armoire from the late 1800s

an oaken Kitchen table & chairs from the 1920s

a pen (inkwell variety) from the end of WWI, depicting a soldier in a gas mask and the date of the armistice (11/11)

A Pabst tapered beer glass from (probably) the 1930s.

My grandfather’s gold 1920 pocketwatch

My dad’s 1950s slide-rule that helped design the heat shield that protected the first object ever recovered from orbit.

a $2 bill from the 1920s that is printed in black and red ink, rather than the later green ink.

Many family photos from 1915 era (Europe), where I can identify all the participants (my Mom has all the original birth/death/baptism/marriage certificates back to the early/mid 1800s, which is quite a feat coming out of Europe)


70 posted on 02/15/2016 6:41:13 PM PST by XEHRpa
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To: jy8z

Got a jar full of arrowheads collected over the years, they’d just be laying there on the ground after spring plowing. No idea how old they might be, I’d guess 500 years or more since this area was largely depopulated when English surveyors and Swiss botanists first came through.


71 posted on 02/15/2016 6:41:53 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: ETL

In the case of Irons, they could be 2 times that old. Whenever the first sun went Nova.


72 posted on 02/15/2016 6:41:58 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: papineau

That beats me!

I have a silver Marcus Aurelius denarius... I bought it during the silver excitement of 1980.

And a few other Roman coins.


73 posted on 02/15/2016 6:42:18 PM PST by djf ("It's not about being nice, it's about being competent!" - Donald Trump)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

...except that we of course don’t actually OWN the atoms of which we are made. They will continue on until the end of time, and space.


74 posted on 02/15/2016 6:42:31 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: princess leah

Very cool. Do you play?


75 posted on 02/15/2016 6:42:35 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: ctdonath2

There are katana conventions around the country, someone could tell you the origin of the swords there.


76 posted on 02/15/2016 6:42:39 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: jy8z

I just remembered that I was given a Roman coin in fairly poor condition around 1960. The guy who gave it to me said it actually was only worth a few dollars as there was still a lot of them around.

Not sure when it was minted.


77 posted on 02/15/2016 6:43:11 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: jy8z
I have a farm issued penny from Guatemala. It is 1880 and was given to me by the vice presidents nephew of Guatemala. It belonged to his family farm and was used to pay the farm labor.
78 posted on 02/15/2016 6:43:14 PM PST by jimpick
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To: jy8z

My faith in Christ. Goes back to God’s decrees in eternity past.


79 posted on 02/15/2016 6:43:31 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (SC - Feb. 13, 2015 .....BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: papineau

That’s fantastic, where did you find it?


80 posted on 02/15/2016 6:43:32 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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