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This was just assigned to my US History 2 class, and I've been thinking about it. I think it's probably either an oil lamp that was my grandfather's grandfather's, or it's some piece of furniture, but I'm really not sure. What about you?
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I have several pieces of furniture (trunk, dressing table, dresser, and 2 small cabinets) that belonged to my great grandmother. IIRC, they are about 80-90 years old.
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The oldest things in our place are some arrowheads and spearpoints -- found in Tennessee near Diane's old house. We don't really know how old - could be anywhere from 150 years to a thousand or more.
(The location they were found was obviously a dump for flawed/rejected arrowheads, etc.)
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Oh Olivet, your husband is wonderful,thats so cool.
Ludosti, I think my mom's oak dresser is about that old, my grandma bought it used in 1940.
Sndrake, I've always wanted to find an arrowhead, but there haven't been any found in my woods for about 40 years, and the neighbors still look. In the sixties they found 4 or five.
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I have an illuminated vellum sheet of music from the 1600's. It was a gift from a friend some years ago. He sent it to me after discovering it on a business trip to Ireland, had it framed and sent it for my birthday. It's one of my most prized possessions.
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Our house was built in 1900. I'm not sure if anything of its contents are older than it is itself.
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My professor offered the oppurtunity of waiting till after thanksgiving, and including parents recidences and belongings for that reason Teshi. We either have to bring it in or take a picture of it.
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The house I'm living in for college was probably built circa 1900. It used to serve as a house for Acacia brothers and when Taft came to visit them, he came to our house.
As for thing, I'd have to do some scrounging.
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Hmm...I have a collection of rocks that predate mammals. If you're referring to manufactured items, then it's another matter. I have some old coins, dating around 100 years old, give or take.
Most of the things in my apartment are hopelessly modern; I'm a computer guy, after all.
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quote:I've always wanted to find an arrowhead, but there haven't been any found in my woods for about 40 years, and the neighbors still look. In the sixties they found 4 or five.
What you need is a good earthquake to shake up the strata some.
I have a piece of fossilized dinosaur poop somewhere, does that count? Or is this human-made objects? I'd have to think about that.
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Dang! Too slow. I was going to say that I have a fossilized snail shell I brought back from Provence that is surely a couple million years old. Besides that I have a couple of geodes that must predate most species.
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Yeah, we have tons of geodes too, but I think the chrynoid stem might really be the most ammusing. Though to my US History teacher, it might not, so I'll take in a bolt off my dad's 1925 Model T Ford (under restoration), because that's pretty mobile too.
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Probably my Great-Grandmother's pearls (necklace and earrings). I don't know if they started in the family in an earlier generation or with her. I got them on our wedding day (you can see them here ). We really need to have a daughter so I can give them to her on her wedding day. I don't want to wait until a granddaughter gets married to give them away (like my Great-Grandmother had to wait for my Mom).
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I have copies of two volumes of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Louisa May Alcott that date to the 1890s or so. Those're probably the oldest man-made things in the apartment right now.
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Oldest thing I know of is a ring that my grandfather gave to my grandmother for their 10th wedding anniversary. My grandmother gave it to me for my high school graduation. I never knew that grandfather, he passed when my dad was still in high school, so it's kind of the only thing I have of him. I'm guessing that the ring is probably about 60 years old, assuming Grandpa bought it new.
Next oldest (not counting humans LOL) is my Atari 2600 Woody.
OH wait, I have first edition Stephen Kings that are definitely older than the Atari, and I probably have paperbacks that predate as well.
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I can't find it now in the mess of stuff I have, but I do have an old dollar coin. Like, from the 1840's.
The oldest things in my house... my parents. Well, actually no. We have this odd little silverware set that my great grandmother bought. (I think it was great grandmother.) So that might be like seventy or eighty years old.
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Not sure if it's the oldest, but the most interesting old thing I have is someone's scrapbook I found in an old used bookstore. There are random clippings in it from the 1880s and 1890s.
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The oldest thing in the house is a bible from the 19th century. It used to belong to my grandparents, but I'm not really sure why they gave it to us. If you want to know, the oldest thing that I own is a copy of The Hobbit from 1937.
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? I have an unofficial collection of old books as well. Most are not in good condition, few are well known, and I don't think any are first editions, but some date from the 1850's, and many from the early 1900s. (By many I mean about half a dozen).
I have a remake of a 1920's Emily Post on etiquette.
I have my wife's great grandmother's Christmas tree we still put up each year--about 1920's.
My house was built in 1927, out of stones that are much older.
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You know, the air in my house has been around forever. But somehow I don't think that counts...
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1) trilobite fossil 2) fossil fern 3) pocket watch 4) the house 5) me 6) Zenith tube radio 7) dkw 8) old stereo 9) desktop computer with Windows 98 10) the dog (although she moves up if we count dog years)
If I could find the dates, there are some things
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quote:Originally posted by Teshi: The room itself is the oldest thing in my room. My student residence was built at the turn of the last century.
Same here. My residence house was built in 1893.
The next oldest thing in my room is probably one of the things I inherited from my parents' college years. Like the blanket on my bed, or my avocado-green mini-fridge. (The latter was a novelty on my floor when I first got it - people kept coming in and asking to see "the green fridge".)
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Good point - I live in what used to be the French consulate in Melbourne, built, I believe, before Canberra was established as our nation's capital. Which would peg it at over 100 years old.
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Currently in my room, the oldest thing I have is an 1896 French edition of the Aeneid in Latin. It's actually wonderful - not too cluttered with commentary and notes, older vocab, and it's fun to read in two languages.
At home, I have no idea. I've got a rock from a red beach on Santorini which is probably pretty old, but I don't count that as an actual "artifact." Maybe in a few years.
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1)Dinosuar fossil 2) A pocket watch 3} desktop computer with Windows 1.5 (or whatever it was that came before 95)
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quote:3} desktop computer with Windows 1.5 (or whatever it was that came before 95)
That was 3.11 (Before that... I don't know. We were still using the Commodore 64). And I know for a fact there's a 486 at my home running that.
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