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What's the oldest thing you own?

  • 24-11-2012 09:37PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭


    What is the oldest thing in your house or oldest thing that you own? Do you believe you have anything of substantial value in your possession? Maybe an heirloom passed down through a few generations?

    Family members and your virginity are not acceptable answers,by the way :p


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  • #2
    tiny timy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭tiny timy


    Spectrum computer,over 20 years old. Then i have an old antique weighted chain wall mounted clock and a really old wireless


  • #3
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,303 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Bought This At Auction, Very Old.

    http://i.huffpost.com/gen/185813/STONE-AGE-DILDO.jpg


  • #4
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    I have a rock!


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    0ph0rce0 wrote: »
    Bought This At Auction, Very Old.

    http://i.huffpost.com/gen/185813/STONE-AGE-DILDO.jpg

    Smell of Wilma off that!!!


  • #6
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,518 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    I have a silver trophy that I won thats 101 years old now. (it was 100 years old when I won it ;)


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  • #7
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    A jar of bovril from Fresher week in Trinity 1992.


  • #8
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Electric drill what walked out the Avro factory in Manchester around 1942 still works


  • #9
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Gibson Les Paul standard.10 years too young to retire on its sale, but a lovely instrument after 43 odd years seasoning. Won't be parting with it any time soon. If I ever do, I'd imagine it'll go to a nephew or niece. Not for sale.


  • #10
    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    A camera from 1921

    And Yellow Ted, a teddy from 1977 :3


    I also have a spectrum ZX +3, and the light gun, pew pew!


    EDIT: Oh no wait, I have a Penny Red stamp from 18XX


  • #11
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    My banjo was made in about 1920/21, so probably that. Actually, got a family bible from around 1800


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  • #12
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    I have some coins my grand uncle collected. He died many years before I was born. Some date back to the very early 1800s.
    My favorite might be a rupee from 1840 from the East India Trading Company. Pity about the small hole in it, I think it might have hung about the neck. I might wear it myself. Here it is beside a Mexican coin from 1894.
    (It was pretty cool finding these and the rest.)

    http://www.freeimagehosting.net/2d2e5

    http://www.freeimagehosting.net/b39f5


  • #13
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    I've a house that was built in 1740. Does that count? Lots of the things inside it are much the same age.. I like old stuff. It's stood the test of time. I also have a clock that came out of Buckingham palace.. and I've a gun and a pit bull, btw.:) Oh, and i forgot, there's a church from 1370 outside, boffins turn up each year to measure it and make sure it's still there. That's quite old in fairness.


  • #14
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    1958 VW Combi. (Needs work though :mad:)


  • #15
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Pottler wrote: »
    I've a house that was built in 1740. Does that count? Lots of the things inside it are much the same age.. I like old stuff. It's stood the test of time. I also have a clock that came out of Buckingham palace.. and I've a gun and a pit bull, btw.:)
    We may have a winner...


  • #16
    bgrizzley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭bgrizzley


    My DNA


  • #17
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    A copy of Nicholas Nickleby printed in 1909.


  • #18
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    A science text book printed in 1899. Until I opened it, the chapter on Quantum Theory was both there and not there ... :cool:

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #19
    skinny90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭skinny90


    I have a Super Nintendo that has never been used,the box has a tear on it but the console is sealed


  • #20
    jessiejam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 778 ✭✭✭jessiejam


    A small hardback book that used to belong to my mam. Printed in 1965, gullivers travels i think it is. Too fekin lazy in front of the fire to go upstairs to find out exactly.


  • #21
    monkeysnapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    I have stones out in my garden, I'd say they have been here since the start of time, and I own them

    Correction ..... When I eventually pay off my mortgage


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  • #22
    tony 2 tone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    Silverfish wrote: »
    A camera from 1921

    And Yellow Ted, a teddy from 1977 :3


    I also have a spectrum ZX +3, and the light gun, pew pew!


    EDIT: Oh no wait, I have a Penny Red stamp from 18XX

    I have a ZX +3 and light gun too! Never got the gun to work though :(

    The oldest thing I have is a pair of stuffed and mounted foxes heads from 1901.


  • #23
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    iPhone 3GS, damn thing is ancient :(


  • #24
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Have a table from the late 1800s


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have a pet dinosaur.


  • #26
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,341 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I have Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. :D


  • #27
    sea_monkey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 755 ✭✭✭sea_monkey


    my virginity


  • #28
    Ziegfeldgirl27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Ziegfeldgirl27


    This is the oldest thing I own

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phHJqmGeZ0Y&list=UU4mYi9FE5p2U5UPrD__HfHw&index=10&feature=plcp

    It's an early 1920s model. Sorry the lighting isn't that good, so you can't really see it. But it has the famous His Masters Voice logo on it and as you can see it still works perfectly. I have a collection of 78s to play on it, mostly Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, and Deanna Durbin.


  • #29
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    My belly button. Have it ever since I can remember.


  • #30
    Logical_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Logical_Bear


    my son,he's ten and a bit


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  • #31
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Logical_Bear wrote: »
    my son,he's ten and a bit
    I one of them thats 12 - I think the others 15. That just means we're old, not that they're old.:)


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