What is your oldest material possession?

[ohiosmith]

I have two German Gold 10 Mark coins minted in 1898.

[bamacrat]

1. At my parents house: an 1892 Spandau Mauser, as well as ..

a 1880 12g Dbl barrell shotgun, as well as a tin photo of a relative from the 1870s.

[arbusto_baboso]

2. I have an old British Army shako (headgear) plate from the napoleonic era.

So, it'd be anywhere from about 1800 to 1814 in origin.

I collect militaria.

[Kutjara]

3. A Song dynasty calcified jade funerary chop, dated appx. 1000 A.D.

It's a beautifully carved dragon and I'd sell my internal organs sooner than part with it.

[ohiosmith]

6. How much do you want for a kidney?

[Kutjara]

8. You wouldn't ask that if you knew what my kidneys have been through.

I'm an organ donor, but I pity the poor bastards who end up with my giblets.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. A land grant from the President of the Republic of Texas.

Issued by Anson Jones. 1846.

[SeattleGirl]

5. I have a doll that was my great-grandmothers when she was

a young girl.

[Rambis]

7. Walnut dresser 1863

The guys name is written in pencil on one of the back drawers. We found out he got a leg shot off in the civil war and moved back to a small southern Iowa town to start making dressers.
My folks are in their 80's so most of the things we have are old. We have a clock and the most comfortable rocking chair hand made from around 1800-1850 no one is around who knows anymore. The clockmaker who fixed it a while ago swore it did not have a brass main spring etc. He fixed the clock and gave it back to my parents at no charge. He said he had been fixing clocks for 50 years it was his pleasure to work on a clock this nice.

[CottonBear]

9. A quartz arrowhead found in NE GA. n/t

[Deep13]

10. The tower of unwashed laundry in the basement.

Just kidding.

Biography of Lincoln from 1866.

[RoyGBiv]

11. A Rock

Sucker is billions of years old. :-)

Okay, more seriously, a newspaper from the 1790's.

[ohiosmith]

15. Rocks. I forgot. I have an orthoceras fossil that is 360,000,000 years old.

[datasuspect]

12. my penis

it is 37 years old

[rug]

24. Dip it in polyurethane and it will last longer.

[azmouse]

13. My husband.

[cwydro]

14. I've got a Nixon/Agnew button.

But if that is not material enough, I'd have to say my truck. It's a 2000. Lost just about everything else in Hurricane Wilma a couple years ago.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

16. A table circa 1750s.

DH picked it up & brought it home. He's looking underneath & says that there's writing. I asked him if he could read it & he says..."Um, mont...mont..montgomery..." :rofl:

[El Fuego]

17. Trilobite fossil from the lower Paleozoic era

I also have Roman coins found in England.

[Xithras]

32. Ooh, I didn't even think about my fossils.

I've got a trilobyte and a few fossilized shark teeth, and a hunk of mammoth rib bone (hand carved by the Aleut). If you want to get really old, I also have some meteorites which are a few billion years old...but then again, anyone who owns a house technically "owns" dirt that's just as old.

[El Fuego]

34. Well if you want to get really, really, really technical...

We're all made up of the cosmic material created during the Big Bang. So everyone and everything is as old as the universe. :crazy:

[Hugin]

38. Coolness! I always wanted some Trilobite fossils.

I'm sure there's some around here. But, I don't know where to look.

[El Fuego]

44. Ebay!

I got mine at a rock and mineral show, but there's plenty of them on Ebay!

[NewWaveChick1981]

18. I have an antique writing desk fron 1746.

:hi: I got this from my mother, who inherited it from her grandmother. It's an amazing piece.

[QMPMom]

19. Letters that were written in the mid 1800s in Germany.

[Left Is Write]

20. Probably my 1938 Coronado floor model radio.

[1gobluedem]

21. Antique silver and amethyst salt spoons

They belonged to my great-great grandmother.

[LSK]

22. I have a book from the 1860s

[rug]

23. A book , MDCLXIII.

[Little Wing]

25. probably my watch, circa 1994

( not exactly the sentimental type )

[JitterbugPerfume]

26. Frederich II of Prussia

called Frederich the Great by Thomas Carlyle in six volumes dated 1886 .

at least I think they are the oldest books I own

The History of England from the revolution in 1688 to the death of George II by TS Smollett dated 1837

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

27. Do they include engravings?

Envy here. I love to thumb though old books.

[JitterbugPerfume]

28. yes

one of queen Sophie, Frederich's mother and one of William Pitt.

Our Will Pitt is cuter and has a better haircut .

the books are very fragile My nephew (who knows I love old books) found them dumpster diving!! Some guy was throwing away old books and my nephew asked if he could have them.

The history of England is badly water damaged .


I also have some slate that claims to be 3 million years old.on edit-- Whoops! that would be 300 million years old

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

30. That is a very good Nephew!

Geez, my Nephews never bring me good finds. I'll have to work on that!

[maveric]

29. 1829 One Cent piece.

USA minted in good condition.

[Xithras]

31. A 1700 year old Roman bronze coin.

Picked it up at an auction many years ago for about $50. Based on the guy depicted on the coin (Gallenos), it was minted sometime after 250AD.

I also own a Bible that was brought over with my ancestors from Ireland. We don't know exactly how old it is, but the oldest birthdates inside date back to the mid 1700's. It's extremely fragile nowadays, and spends its time in a heavy wooden box in the back of my closet.

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. I have some rock that's a billion or so years old, and some hydrogen

that's probably about 15 billion years old.

[Blue-Jay]

35. "Little Essays" by George Santayana, first edition, circa 1920.

I stole it from a college library, after I discovered that it hadn't been checked out for nearly 30 years.

[querelle]

36. Lalique Crystal Bowl

From around 1921. I should have it appraised one of these days.

Q

[stuntcat]

37. a Victrola that

I inherited.
Maybe there's a year on it but I don't remember.. I should dust it someday soon.

[hellbound-liberal]

39. I still have my catcher's mitt from my Little League years (40 years ago)

I was on the Cardinals and I was #15. Naturally I was a big Tim McCarver fan!

[jgraz]

40. My great great grandfather's wedding ring

The box says
NAZZARENO BERETTI
Piazza Minerva
Roma
1868

[izzybeans]

41. My home was built in 1870.

[LaurenG]

42. A candle stick and cow bell made by my ggg grandfather in 1834

and a bible from 1789.

[Steven_S]

43. Civil War era stuff....

An officer's sword and a Springfield Officer's rifle. Both still work. ;)

[InvisibleTouch]

45. Ordovician fossils.

Bryozoans, crinoids, brachiopods, horn corals, 450-some million years old. I never did find a trilobite, even though I lived near one of the best Ordovician fossil sites for years.

[NNadir]

46. The hydrogen in my flesh.

Some of it is as old as the universe itself.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

47. my birth ceritificate w/ footprints

beyond that, probably my star wars figure of Greedo from my 6th birthday party
if you mean 1st things i acquired in life

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

48. if we're not talking from my lifespan...

then my autographed photo of mary pickford from 1916

[Ron Green]

49. I have a book of the history of the Kings of England, and the most recent one is

Charles I. In fact he was in charge when this book was printed, in 1628.