what is the oldest thing you own?

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Kiprobalhato
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19 Feb 2018, 3:09 am

i have an atari 2600 game cartridge, "racing".

i also have a fossilized scallop shell but i think the atari game is slightly older.


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19 Feb 2018, 8:30 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:

i also have a fossilized scallop shell but i think the atari game is slightly older.


I have two Devils Toenail fossils in one rock. Pretty sure thats the oldest thing i own lol But up from that, I own a half crown coin that has been turned into a ring - dated 1924


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19 Feb 2018, 9:59 am

I have a guitar that was made in the 1920's and a camillus boot knife made in about 1928.
Next oldest thing I can think of is my wool army blanket that was made in 1942.



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19 Feb 2018, 10:04 am

My body.



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19 Feb 2018, 10:05 am

I have a coin that's 100 years older than I am.


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19 Feb 2018, 10:13 am

A ceramic statue of a Siamese cat. I got in in 1978, one year before the birth of my first real Siamese cat, Samantha.



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19 Feb 2018, 10:27 am

My great grandmother's handkerchief
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19 Feb 2018, 10:39 am

A piece of trilobite.

A bible from either the 1700's or 1800's, had some other books that dated back to 1800's, not sure if they're still around.
some books from the 1920's and onwards

some items from my grandfather's home that probably dates back to the 1800's


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19 Feb 2018, 12:52 pm

Probably a comforter, which had some ads for some of Pablo Picasso's exhibitions, which was bought by my mother circa 1973-1974.

There are dresser-drawers of unknown date, bought in by my wife, which might be older than that.



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19 Feb 2018, 2:19 pm

I have a few rocks from the beach, but I guess they don't count.
I've got a jacket that my mom used to wear when she was pregnant with me, so I guess it's a few years older than I am. And pretty much everything out in the barn is at least double my age.



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19 Feb 2018, 2:28 pm

The oldest thing I own that I can roughly confirm the age of is a weather barometer that my great-grandparents owned from the 1940s. I have some river rocks from Southern IL that could be much older (thousands of years old?) but I have not been able to determine how old they are.


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19 Feb 2018, 2:43 pm

the guy who said "my body" beat me to it, damn it :wall:



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19 Feb 2018, 2:56 pm

Fossils,lots of them.I walk the creek and find them.If it's man made,then arrowheads and pottery shards.


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19 Feb 2018, 3:13 pm

there are some rocks my sister gave me, that are prolly purty old. the grounds of my property are older than, well, dirt :mrgreen:



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19 Feb 2018, 7:41 pm

A Sikhote-Alin meteorite ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhote-Alin_meteorite ) estimated by researchers to have a potassium-argon "age" of 1.7 x 10(9) years ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17829120 ). One of our members who knows about "sciencey" stuff might know how to say that in common terms). But, generally speaking, it should be about the same age as the Solar System, or 4.568 billion years old.


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19 Feb 2018, 8:08 pm

AspieUtah wrote:
A Sikhote-Alin meteorite ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhote-Alin_meteorite ) estimated by researchers to have a potassium-argon "age" of 1.7 x 10(9) years ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17829120 ). One of our members who knows about "sciencey" stuff might know how to say that in common terms). But, generally speaking, it should be about the same age as the Solar System, or 4.568 billion years old.


I don't think anyone's got anything older than that ^ unless someone has auntblabby's pacifier


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