[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.

[clamper1797]

Mrs Clamper ? ... ducks

[kitchen]

A dinosaur thigh bone, about 30" long. Recovered from a late cretaceous coal deposit. Minimum 65 million years old.

[Zman516]

1898 .30-40 Krag.

[Riley]

I might be able top top my own record but the oldest thing that I can think of is a minie ball that I found in the dirt. It was fired during the Battle of Ox Hill in 1862 from the Union line, hit someone on the Confederate line and didn’t penetrate, fell to the ground and got stepped on. (My co-worker and I did some good homework and drew some reasonable conclusions from the evidence as we found it).

[gunsmithkat]

Smith & Wesson No 1 1/2 in 22 Short, made approx 1868.

[lafroste]

I have a revolutionary war era (approx. 1780) six legged lion paw sofa. G. Washington could have sat on this couch but of course I have no way of knowing that. (It’s for sale BTW).

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

1890 or so Federal chest. Used to be a picker and antique dealer. The chest is nice, but the 1820 or so for poster is awesome!

[Elderberry]

I have a Hamilton Railroad Special pocket watch and its Neutrons date back to the Lepton epoch.

[mojo114]

A bracelet with 1800’s coins hanging from it, weird, must have been a fashion statement back then.
So much stuff from three decades, wish I knew someone that wanted all the stuff from three generations.

[GeaugaRepublican]

An Antioch Tancred, a coin from 1101 AD.

[OftheOhio]

10,000 year old Mammoth hunters knife I found myself.

Stick and ball parlor table I thought was Victorian but may be civil war.

Civil war era two piece bronze mount for deer antlers.

And the coolest, early 1908-1913 electric motor driving a 1920’s German reform watch makers lathe with a three jaw chuck and round-thane belt. (crow calls)

[rustbucket]

The oldest man-made things I have are Roman coins of the third and fourth centuries AD. I purchased them from a coin dealer. It was great fun figuring out the inscription and the emperors whose likenesses are on the coins.

I have various fossils collected over the years -- a small section of a dinosaur leg bone given to me by a collector (at least 65 million years old -- the bone, not the collector), trilobites (purchased), a slab containing fish fossils and coprolites (purchased at a National Monument and carefully exposed with a tiny pick by me), clam fossils from about 120 million years ago, and crinoid stems of unknown age.

Finally, my son gave me a small piece of the Sikhote-Alin Meteorite (Iron IIAB) from Russia purchased from www.meteorites-for-sale.com. This Russian meteorite fell in 1947, was quite large, and is described in Wikipedia.

[ChildOfThe60s]

2nd oldest is my dad’s K bar from WW2 along with his dog tags.

[goodnesswins]

A 1721 copy of the Magna Carta

[BuffaloJack]

I’ve got a 10” skillet made in 1863 and appraised at $1400 (and my wife still uses it for eggs and bacon), but the oldest thing I own is a pipe wrench made in 1832 (and I still use it for plumbing).

[texas_mrs]

I have a bible from sometime in the 1800’s that was owned by my great-great great grandmother, Sarah Fletcher Dixon, who was one of the early pioneers to Dallas Texas. It still has inside it the braided hair from several little girls who I will never know the names of.

[The Duke]

Before leaving the family farm to start my career in distant Florida in 1981 I wanted a keepsake; so I went to an old, unused cattle barn we had, picked up an antique copper fire extinguisher that had been cast aside decades earlier, and threw it in my trunk.

I've since restored it and use it as an ornamental doorstop.

[fso301]

A 1938 5 dollar silver certificate.

[Cboldt]

Manmade object, coin from ancient Rome.

Lots of rocks, gemstones, probably millions of years old.

Real estate, a piece of the earth, billions of years old!

[Personal Responsibility]

A Flash comic book from 1962