What's the oldest thing in your home?

One of the oldest things I have in my house now is a Portrait of my parents when they got married. Actually today would have been their 90th Wedding Anniversary. I've been looking for a new frame for the picture before I hang it up again.They were only 16yrs old when they eloped.
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needshave said:
It's a bit of a toss up, but I think the house would win. When I was renovating this house, I took up the staircase piece by piece to refinish it. The staircase has two landings (12' ceilings).
When I got to the first landing I found an old vintage Stevens 12 gauge shotgun and a wooden keg of black powder, between the staircase and wood subfloor in a hidden cavity. A friend was able to get the black powder safely cleaned up. The house is a Gothic Revival of all brick, including the interior walls. It was started in 1848 and finished in 1850.
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I just thought of something as I was leaving the house, I have attached a file of the foyer. In the upper corner you will see a globe hanging from the ceiling. It is actually a kerosene light with a crystal globe that has stars cut into the crystal. You pull down on the bottom the light comes down so you can light it, and the globe goes up. Once lite, you push the lamp base up and the globe comes down and sets on it. The house was a bridal house, and the gentleman that built the house was a german
Immigrant. The house was built for his intended lady. Once the house was finished she arrived from Germany with the lamp. So I don't really know how old the lamp is, but it still works well.
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Oldest thing .... pictures, and a few albums that belonged to my mothers family. They go back to early 1920's. And I have my father's baby and military records, along with pictures from his childhood home in NY.

I've tried to label everything that I could identify, so my daughters in the future will have the information to understand whats's there.
 
I have the china my grandmother got as a wedding present in 1885.

One old thing I have that I use every day is my mother's paring knife. I believe she bought it when she first married in 1939. I don't know what I'll do if it ever breaks it's perfectly balanced and I can't seem to use any of the new ones as easily.
 
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