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What's The Oldest Thing You own?

Discussion in 'General' started by Razr, Jul 19, 2024.

  1. Razr

    Razr Well-Known Member

    The oldest thing I own would be my wife, she's 51.
    Other than that, it would have to be some mechanic tools, probably 40 years old.
     
  2. StaccatoFan

    StaccatoFan Our National Nightmare is over

    I have an Edision Standard Phonograph patented in 1882. Got it from my grandfather. It plays the cylinder soup can records. It very rarely gets played. Last time it saw sunshine was when I took it to my sons second grade class to show as part of their unit on Thomas Edison.
     
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  3. motoboy

    motoboy Well-Known Member

    1911 post-fire Conn New Perfected Wonder cornet with the circus bore.
     
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  4. Razr

    Razr Well-Known Member

    Now that I think about it, I do have my dad's 1961 Browning 12 guage.
     
  5. Trainwreck

    Trainwreck I could give a heck

    A guy I worked with when I was just starting out at welding/fab shops retired and gave me damn near all of his tools, books, metrology equipment. It's all stuff from the late 70's all the way through 2003. He told me to drive my little pickup truck to work and then proceeded to just load all his shit into it the day before he retired. I had just 17 and this was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for me.

    I still have every god damn bit of this stuff.

    He didn't have a cell phone, and was moving to the south right away after retiring. I never talked to him again. I hope he's well.
     
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  6. TSWebster

    TSWebster Well-Known Member

    I have a Colt SA made in the 1890s. Other than that, the land I live on. Been here as long as the earth has.
     
  7. britx303

    britx303 Boomstick Butcher…..

    1803 half cent. I was 10 years old, helping my mom rake a customers yard. Saw what I thought was a quarter in the dirt. Sat it on a shelf for a couple months til I cleaned it off and saw what it was
     
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  8. SteveThompson

    SteveThompson Banned by amafan

    My pet rock.
     
  9. Norton 357

    Norton 357 Well-Known Member

    My 1961 BSA B40

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  10. ungwaha

    ungwaha Well-Known Member

    A Winchester Model 1897 12 ga made in 1912 that my Dad traded a box of Hershey bars for in Japan right after WWII.
     
  11. MrGooch

    MrGooch Well-Known Member

    Somewhere in my boxes of crap I have a Culver Block that was part of the original Indianapolis Motor Speedway track surface. A buddy who is a photographer pulled it out of the backside of the banking one day during 500 practice and gave it to me because he already had one.
     
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  12. CBRRRRR999

    CBRRRRR999 Well-Known Member

    A 6 inch megalodon tooth I found diving.
    Concert tshirts to the 80s.
    1800s coins
    Mustering reports and discharges for family going back to Civil War. One ancestor held high ground at Gettysburg with artillery against Picketts charge.
     
  13. CRA_Fizzer

    CRA_Fizzer Honking at putter!

    My grandpa's 1941 Remington 12 gauge pump.
     
  14. IrocRob

    IrocRob Well-Known Member

    Not really certain but the two things that come to mind are a cavalry sword from 1847 and an old telegraph set, date unknown.
     
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  15. rafa

    rafa Well-Known Member

    Not quite at the same level.

    But a few years ago, when I got my first house, one of my coworkers, a tooling engineer that just retired last year, gave me an older craftsman drill. I know the thing it is pretty old, the whole construction is metal.
    I actually never used it, but I am keeping for the memories, was super nice of him.
     
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  16. Hyperdyne

    Hyperdyne Indy United SBK

    Alexander Arms 1886 Shotgun.
     
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  17. Past Glory

    Past Glory I still have several AVON calendars from the 90's

    Lawdy, but how I wish Gorilla George were here to chime in on this one.
     
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  18. Jed

    Jed mellifluous

    Table from the early 1800s. Bible from a relative that he carried with him during the civil war. He was from Maine.
     
  19. auminer

    auminer Renaissance Redneck

    This is the oldest I can think of off the bat.

    1858 US one cent

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    Getting that one out, I spotted this one. I really wish that inanimate objects could talk, because I really want to know the story about its travels before the day in ~2002 I found it on the floor of the lumber department in a Home Depot in Garland Texas.

    I bet that's a tale.

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  20. rd400racer

    rd400racer Well-Known Member


    Mine is grandpa's Winchester pump .22 from around the same time frame.
     
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