What is the oldest thing you own?

[KIR]

For me, it is a Morgan Silver Dollar dated 1878 SF mint mark.

 

[Sturgis270]

Model 1855 U.S. Springfield musket.

 

[RC44Mag]

I think the oldest is my Great Great Grandfathers discharge from the war. 1865

 

[hittman]

Hmm … great question. I’ve got a couple of Morgans in that date range too but don’t remember exactly.

Bet those are my oldest too….I can’t think of anything else.

 

[375hh1973]

My house

Built in 1988

 

[eveled]

Somewhere I have some Roman coins from the time of Christ.

Still that's pretty modern compared to a fossil Pretty sure I have some fossils around too.

 

[RSIno1]

The oldest family thing (besides tin types and my ggg grandfathers Civil War discharge papers) is a high chair that turns into a stroller. I'd guess about 1890 because this was taken before my grandmother was born in 1895. It's her parents and siblings.

 

[Fox Mike]

Probably my arrowhead collection. Some go waaaaaaay back.

 

[Snake45]

Probably a 1903 Colt automatic in .32 ACP.

 

[contender]

Dirt.

 

[ediogenes]

Dad’s Ward’s Western Field 20-gauge pump shotgun. I think it’s older than I am (nearly 70).

 

[nvbirdman]

A table that my great grandfather made in 1890.

 

[Far North Collector]

I have a pre Alaska purchase (1859) 1850s hand made Russian Bear Trap. it came from the southern most town on Kodiak Island. the town of Akhiok. it was hanging at the company store for the old cannery. I made a deal an bought it years ago. great addition to my trap collection. only one I ever seen, other the in a magazine. here it is on my 40in tall Alaska bush wheel tires. its big ! FNC

 

[Del J]

.36 cents is the oldest thing around here . 1842 quarter, 1842 dime, 1842 penny.

Del J

 

[40nascar]

1783 Colonial copper coin ( about the size of a large cent) with George Washington's profile on each side

 

[blume357]

The poetic works of Edgar Allen Poe... printed in 1854.

 

[GRAMPS 51]

A pine fireplace mantel that came out of a house built in 1710 but an expert says it has a 1790s style old anyway

Gramps

 

[GasGuzzler]

If diamonds, fossils, and geodes don't count it's probably a piece of money or a book.

 

[nekvermont]

The old rundown farmhouse my wife and I live in, built in 1832.

 

[JiminMaine]

For me, it is a Morgan Silver Dollar dated 1878 SF mint mark.

1819 Harper's Ferry musket w/bayonet.