What's the oldest object of any kind in your home?

[Dial H For Hero]

In my case, I recently purchased an authenticated Japanese wakizashi (short sword) that was made in approximately 1450 A.D.

[Srkdqltr]

1. My husband.

[snowybirdie]

6. Mine too

Still cute though!

[stopdiggin]

2. nothing here made before yours truly

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(maybe some dirt, dust - or atoms?)

[UTUSN]

39. Hah! Was going to say "house" but then realized "me".

[Ocelot II]

3. Some fossils, including me.

[Roland99]

4. A hardback copy of (shoot. Forget the name). Not Le Petit Prince. But French short story

From like the late 1800s. Believe it belonged to my maternal grandmother’s mother

[2naSalit]

5. A couple of...

Stone tools I found along a gravel bar in the river. Could be a few thousand years old at least. I have geodes and gems too but the oldest man-made things would be the artifacts I've found in my travels.

[surrealAmerican]

7. Well, there is that geode on the shelf ...

... I don’t know how old it is.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Me

Sad to say.

Oh I forgot, I have my grandmother's christening cup, made in 1898.
So it is 124 years old. I am not that old yet.

[Tomconroy]

9. A slant front desk made in Connecticut in the 1780s.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

10. Me

[Nittersing]

11. 1886 - A pastel of my Grandmother at 18 month old.

Actually, I have a few pieces of jewelry that were handed down that may predate that pastel.

[parkia00]

12. A few Chinese Han Dynasty pottery pots

around 2000 years old

[Ptah]

13. 1870 - A clothes iron made by my great-grandfather.

[zanana1]

35. Wow!

That is seriously impressive.

[dameatball]

14. Some fuzzy looking thing in the back of my refrigerator.

[bluedigger]

15. Native American potsherds 1000 AD, give or take.

They are laying all over the place so I pick them up when I'm walking the dog to keep them from getting crushed by tractors. Have a few ground stone tools previous inhabitants collected and moved to the yard, but they are difficult to date after they have been removed from their context.

[sarge43]

16. Petrified wood coster and me. n/t

[doc03]

17. I have an 1893 Gold Eagle coin, the house 1943 and me 1948. nt

[brer cat]

18. First Printing of Uncle Tom's Cabin-1852

[zanana1]

36. WOW!

[Elessar Zappa]

19. A dresser that was made between 1830 and 1860.

My great great great grandfather made it.

[Doc Sportello]

20. Stanhope souvenir pens from the late 1800s

They were souvenirs for when people made the grand tour of Europe. They are made of bone with images of European scenes of the Eiffel Tower, Edinburgh, etc. They have a Stanhope lens embedded which allows viewing of a micro photograph of that scene when held up to the light.

[Wicked Blue]

21. Tumbled stones of quartz, jasper, etc.

My grandmother's bracelet from around 1900.

Me - I'll turn 70 this Monday.

[niyad]

22. Me.

[mentalsolstice]

23. A Windsor bench from colonial days.

A captain’s bar chair like ones seen in old TV westerns. Both of my grannies loved buying antiques.

[lark]

24. Dresser and table made in 1880 in England.

Oak burl

[lastlib]

30. that's gotta be beautiful!

[Kali]

25. fossils

other rocks

[GumboYaYa]

42. Same here

Some of the minerals are the oldest.

[Aristus]

26. I have a book that is a collecton of popular farm ballads from the 19th Century.

It was printed in the 1880's.

[Vinca]

27. I'm pretty sure I have a few fossils picked up from yard sales over the years.

Our house is from the late 1700's, so there's that. I may have a pre-Columbian relic (bat-shaped pottery piece), but I have yet to get it authenticated.

[highplainsdem]

28. I have both an obsidian arrowhead and a fossilized clam shell found on my grandfather's

farm when I was a kid. Wish I still had the accordion brought over from Germany more than a century ago, but that was given to a relative who can play it (and who also has an accordion that had belonged to Lawrence Welk).

[lastlib]

31. Native American arrowheads, including a spear-point my grandfather found in the 1920s...

A state university archaeologist estimated it to be 5,000 years old. We have found a big load of arrowheads/tools on our farm over the years. My brother made off with Grandpa's collection, but I got the spear-point.

[csziggy]

32. A fossil horse tooth and a fossil horse hoof - both over a million years old

As for man made objects, a projectile point I found here on the farm that is definitely Pre-Columbian and possible a thousand years earlier than that.

Then there is my husband's "Spanish" chest that his great grandmother purchased in Amsterdam about 1890 that have the year 1540 carved into the lid. The carving on the outside of the lid is very much the style of the Black Forest about that time period. Inside the lid is a painting in the Chinese style of the Ciudad de Macau (City of Macau) as it probably was in 1580 - with the coat of arms of Philip II as King of Portugal. (This is the same Philip II of Spain that sent the Spanish Armada towards England.) We still have not been able to authenticate the chest, but it's definitely a conversation piece!

[Duppers]

34. HolyCats, you could open a museum!

[csziggy]

37. We have a lot of cool stuff in our house, but not quite museum quality

When we were in the UK, we visited Agatha Christie's house and it reminded me of ours. Lots of neat stuff that had been collected with no overarching theme. that's pretty much us.

Now my sister, who gave me the fossils, could open a fossil museum! Some of the pieces she found are in the museum at University of Florida, including the smilodon species named for her (she found the holotype fossil that was first studied to identify it as a new species). She has a separate building just for her fossil collection.

[Duppers]

43. Impressive!

👍.

[Emile]

33. Many coins from the early 1800's.

[Marthe48]

38. We have a nice rock and fossil collection

Not being a fundie, pretty sure they are all way older than 5000 years

The sword sounds like a nice addition to your collection

[jcgoldie]

40. the house itself

Was a two room shack built sometime before 1850... a century later in the 1930s they added a 2 story farmhouse onto it... I like to call that "the new addition" just because it really pisses my wife off because she moved from a nice 1970s ranch style brick house to travel back in time with me on the farm

[frogmarch]

41. Wasp in Baltic amber

40-50 myo

[Duppers]

44. WOW!!!

[Backseat Driver]

45. A couple of mid 19th century silver dollars, then skip to a

some inexpensive jewelry and some well-worn small pieces of inexpensive furniture/furnishings from the early 1900s/1920-40s. A few vintage military memorabilia from our WWII navy and army vet fathers.

[Alpeduez21]

46. An orthoceras fossil. 400 million years old

An early squid thing with jet propulsion in an exoskeleton