What’s the oldest thing you own?

[Fozzie_DeBear]

2 coins from Ancient Egypt (250BC) and 1 from Athens (400BC)

And two fossilized megaldon teeth

[MoneyGuy]

I have an unfired, rust-encrusted bullet I dug up in Normandy from the Falaise Pocket, 1944.

[Weitz]

I am honestly having a hard time coming up with anything that is more than 20 years old.. Y'all have a lot of cool stuff though! Cool to see.

[Fuzz]

I've got a massive round of petrified wood I found working in the field about 20 years ago. That's gotta be pretty old. I can barely lift it.

[Dion]

I have a Bobby Orr jersey I bought in the mid 70's

[cam_wmh]

In my Calgary condo, I had a vintage early 80's Asteroids Cocktail machine. Sold it, before I moved though.

[ignite09]

R32 GTR is easily the oldest thing I own.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by ignite09

R32 GTR is easily the oldest thing I own.

You win for having the youngest old thing.

[Sylvanfan]

I have an Upright Grand Piano that's from 1914. My Dad came accross it in a flood claim back in the 80's. He took it get some restoration work done and the Piano guy convinced him to spend a few dollars on it thinking it was a Decker Brothers New York as opposed to Decker Brothers Chicago Piano. So the restoration project was stopped part way thru when it was realized that this wasn't the good Decker Brothers Piano.

My Mom still has a Gramaphone that's from the early part of the 1900's. My Grandfather bought it second hand in 1925, and I remember them giving it to us in like 1987 because we had to drive from East of Regina to Cranbrook with 3 of us in the front seat of our small 86 Buick Lesabre. It still has a few of those old records that came with it. So one day I'll put my claim on that to keep as it's almost been in the family for 100 years now.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

I have an Upright Grand Piano that's from 1914. My Dad came accross it in a flood claim back in the 80's. He took it get some restoration work done and the Piano guy convinced him to spend a few dollars on it thinking it was a Decker Brothers New York as opposed to Decker Brothers Chicago Piano. So the restoration project was stopped part way thru when it was realized that this wasn't the good Decker Brothers Piano.

My Mom still has a Gramaphone that's from the early part of the 1900's. My Grandfather bought it second hand in 1925, and I remember them giving it to us in like 1987 because we had to drive from East of Regina to Cranbrook with 3 of us in the front seat of our small 86 Buick Lesabre. It still has a few of those old records that came with it. So one day I'll put my claim on that to keep as it's almost been in the family for 100 years now.

We have a piano that we got because my brother-in-law moved into an apartment downtown and it was just there.

He asked the landlord to get rid of it and was promptly told: "No. Its your piano now."

And lo and behold my youngest daughter wanted to learn to play piano!

So I paid a company to move it from his apartment to my house and then paid to have it cleaned and tuned so my daughter could use it for practice.

It was at that point that I learned that people hide all kinds of sordid things in pianos.

I think piano tuners make more money pocketing the stuff they find hidden in pianos than they do for their actual piano-tuning fees.

So for consumer advice, if you ever get a used piano, have it professionally moved, tuned, cleaned and then douse the thing in Lysol. Maybe even ignite it for a short period to kill everything with fire.

[Wormius]

I have a Rose & Crown pewter stein, like this, from dad, that I still use regularly. I actually like the flavour that the metal imparts when you drink from it. Not sure when he got it, but I think a souvenir from a trip over to England in the 60s, I think.

[troutman]

My old genes!

the oldest known functioning gene is the one that codes for the enzyme glutamine synthetase, which creates the amino acid glutamine from glutamate and ammonia. As this enzyme is a crucial part of the way cells make protein and remove excess nitrogen, natural selection has preserved it unchanged. Every living thing uses this same gene that first evolved more than two billion years ago – before even the first cells with a nucleus emerged.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.scie...in-humans/amp/

[Textcritic]

I have a few coins kicking around somewhere from the turn of the last century. I also have a four-volume set of Biblia Hebraica, with an old critical apparatus printed in 1868. My favourite old things are my copies of Uncle Scrooge Comics ##1–7 (1952–54).

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[DFO]

Extensive rock & fossil collection - obviously pretty old.

I think the oldest thing in the house that I purchased is an early 80's edition of the Stratego board game.

[Sr. Mints]

Staring me in the face everyday to the point where I don't see it anymore

This was given to me by my grandma before she died. My great-grandma's sister painted it, I liked it when I was young so it was just given the me. My grandma died when I was when I was quite young, and I've had it for over 30 years. The painting has to be 100 years old. No idea if it's the original frame, but it's in rough shape and I kind of like it like it that way

I actually don't know much about that part of my family going back past my grandparents, except they were early aussie settlers and somebody going back even further had a mountain named after them in Canberra ( it's more like halfthe size of Nose Hill; I was little underwhelmed when I sought it out the last time I was there)

[bigtmac19]

Originally Posted by Locke

We have a piano that we got because my brother-in-law moved into an apartment downtown and it was just there.

He asked the landlord to get rid of it and was promptly told: "No. Its your piano now."

And lo and behold my youngest daughter wanted to learn to play piano!

So I paid a company to move it from his apartment to my house and then paid to have it cleaned and tuned so my daughter could use it for practice.

It was at that point that I learned that people hide all kinds of sordid things in pianos.

I think piano tuners make more money pocketing the stuff they find hidden in pianos than they do for their actual piano-tuning fees.

So for consumer advice, if you ever get a used piano, have it professionally moved, tuned, cleaned and then douse the thing in Lysol. Maybe even ignite it for a short period to kill everything with fire.

Can you expand on this??