What is the oldest thing in your home??

5 or 6 books printed in the early to mid 1800s and a bunch of 78 RPM records, aka, shellacs.

The books are mostly poetry and Shakespeare plays, and one is by a well-known explorer, but I forget which one at the moment. They're from my Mom's collection.

The records are mostly classical symphonies and waltzes. They were my Grampa's.
 

Marie5656 said:
My bookshelf...it belonged to my parents. Next oldest is ME!!!
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Could well be me.

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Jessica is of August 1947, ( I'm from March 1946,) meanwhile,
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my Wurlitzer jukebox is December 1946,
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The Morris is older, 1938, but we have parted company.
I stood the Morris up for the MG. I'm still not forgiven.

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My wife's sewing machine collection goes back a bit.
This one is not exactly BC, but it's knocking on a bit.
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There again, my Philips push bike
out dates me by 20 years.
But the oldest thing in my home
has to be the house itself. 1901
 
I have my grandfather's hammer, don't know exactly how old it is but it is one of a kind. He broke the wood handle and installed about a 3/4-inch metal pipe in it for the handle which is a little more than a foot long. It is heavy and hard to use there is no balance with it and it vibrates in your hand when you use it. You need to have a strong wrist and arms to use it like he did.
 
My wife went to Israel about 15 years ago. She brought back a Roman coin. About 2000 years old. Wasn't expensive. I think it was about $40 when she bought it. Romans produced endless volumes of things. I am pretty sure you can still buy Roman coins and other artifacts for very low prices...still under $100.
 
Pepper said:
I had a leather bound book of all of Chaucer's works, printed around 1820 if I'm remembering it right, but I lost it in Hurricane Sandy when my basement flooded. I left it in my storage bin by accident.
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One of these books is really small, like 5"x8", printed in 1895, and it's called The Marvel Cyclopedia - A Condensed Library of Useful Knowledge. It's dark green and all the page edges are deep red. I look it up now and then, but I haven't found any reference to it online yet.

The first few pages are full-page ads for *BicycleS*, and ~Men's Fine Hats & Shoes~ and stuff. It's a quirky little book.
 
Pepper said:
I had a leather bound book of all of Chaucer's works, printed around 1820 if I'm remembering it right, but I lost it in Hurricane Sandy when my basement flooded. I left it in my storage bin by accident.
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Murrmurr said:
One of these books is really small, like 5"x8", printed in 1895, and it's called The Marvel Cyclopedia - A Condensed Library of Useful Knowledge. It's dark green and all the page edges are deep red. I look it up now and then, but I haven't found any reference to it online yet.

The first few pages are full-page ads for *BicycleS*, and ~Men's Fine Hats & Shoes~ and stuff. It's a quirky little book.
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What the hey, I finally found it, the exact one! Same color, same author & publisher: $25 to $79, depending on condition.

Coolio.
 
I may have some older hand me downs from my parent's stashed in a box of keepsakes, but the first thing that pops into my head, is my dictionary that I bought in high school. It is outdated, tattered, with a taped binding holding it together, and is the one thing I bought for myself that I still have. In fact, it's the only dictionary I have ever owned.
 
I have a dinasaur bone that I thought was 66 million years old. Recently a religious friend told me that's impossible because the earth is only 6000 years old. So the oldest thing I have is either less than 6000 years old or around 66 million years old, give or take.
 

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