What is the oldest item you own or have in your house?

I would say a large flower pot that my grandmother had in her house. I don't know how old it is but I remember it being there when I was very young. I use it now as a magazine holder.
 

My aunt left me a cameo and sapphire bracelet from God knows when. She was 95 when she died a couple of years ago.
 
We have a bench my mother bought in 1952 when I was two. It was a pew from a monastery, which had a closing down sale in my home island. It could be several hundred years old, it has the face of one of the Tudor kings carved into it. My father had it valued about 30+ years ago and it was worth about £2000 then. My father let me have it about 20 years ago, as I had always said I wanted it, my sisters had no interest in it. One of my daughters would like it and as the other girls don't want it she is welcome to it. We also have a large handmade key from my childhood home, which is also centuries old. I have no idea if it is worth anything, but it isn't for sale so I am not bothered about that.
 
I can't think of anything in my home that's older than I am. I don't have any family heirlooms of any kind and everything in my house has been acquired since my birth. So unless my wife has been lying about her age for all these years, I'm the oldest thing in my home.
 
An old Welsh chest dated to the 16th century. Been in my side of the family for ages, probably one of my ancestors nicked it!
 
What an interesting question. I have a coral necklace that belonged to my grandmother's grandmother who brought it over from South Holland on a wooden ship, the barque "North Sea" in 1857. I have no idea how old it was then but I still have it. Kind of interesting to have that much information but I wish I knew more!

I also have a silver cream pitcher from my mother-in-law. I have no idea how old it is but I believe it came from her mother - which puts it somewhere in the late 1800s and possibly from Ireland. Cool stuff!
 
We have a large framed picture of my Mother's 1-year photo. That photo would have been taken in 1921. That's not the oldest....

We have an upright piano that dates to the late 1800's. A great aunt of my Mother's was a concert pianist. She fell and broke a wrist in the late 1920's and could no longer perform. She offered her piano to my Grandfather for my Mother to learn to play on for the cost of transportation. It cost $35 to have the piano transported from Kansas City the 100 miles to my Grandfather's farm. At that time, with two children and the economy tanking, $35 was a lot of money. He scraped it together and the piano has been in our family since. It is a beautiful furniture piece, but needs tuned. We have offered it to others, as we neither one play, but have no takers. Folks just don't want an old upright anymore.
 
My grandfathers pocket watch, a book that was my grandmothers copyright 1883. Some Confederate money that my forebears were saving to buy a mule. They never got the mule.
My fathers union book from when he crewed on an ocean liner in 1922.
 
uncle has one of the first repeating springfirld from the civil war. Just about for got I have two mantel clocks that are older then the United States
 
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