Reply #114: Well, I am sitting directly under a Tiffany stained glass chandelier

[American Tragedy]

which is apparently an heirloom from my great-great grandmother, an inscrutable, independent German. She became wealthy through her sausage shops, lost everything in the Depression, then made it all back and more through a bold business scheme and clever stock investments.

It isn't quite the oldest thing I own, but it is undoubtedly the most valuable.

However, my favorite possession remains my grandfather's photographs. He was a large-format photographer with a darkroom in his house, so I have hundreds of gorgeous pictures of my family from back then. If I get hold of a scanner, I'd love to post them online sometime. They're great.