Posted on 02/15/2016 6:24:28 PM PST by 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.
I have a rock...which has been a rock, since before Adam and Eve too.....
Meteorites are older than any rock original to earth. They're believed to be as old as the solar system, around 5 billion years.
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.
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.
Beats me. Though I’ve a coin from the time of Constantine.
How old is that?
Hehehe! Clever!
A dresser built about 1830.
Like minds...
A large clam fossil. Not sure how old, but beautiful.
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.
A widow’s mite from the time of Jesus Christ.
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.
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.
The blighter lost us the Americas. (laugh)
Some earth I dug up in my back yard over 4 billion years old
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.
I have a saddle on my guitar made of mammoth tusk.
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