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.
Several meteorites that are millions of years old.
A hard bound book entitled “A Fools Errand (written by one of the fools)” first edition, published in 1867.
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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”.
Salvation... it’s about 2,000 years old now.
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.
1863 Tower Enfield musket.
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.
I have a penny minted under King Edward I, “Longshanks” of “Braveheart” movie fame. From about AD 1300.
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.
I have the whistle and pop off valves from an 1890’s Case steam engine.
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.....
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.
How old is that?
A dresser built about 1830.
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.