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What's the oldest thing you own?

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  • #62
    Condatis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Condatis


    A book – The Circuit Court Companion – 1776.


  • #63
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    A big enamel developing tray my great-aunt used in her photography studio in the 1950's. My aunt found it a few months ago and gave it to me. I feel honoured to have it.


  • #64
    sheikhnguyen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭sheikhnguyen


    a ring from the 1900s and some Marks from Germany's hyper inflation in the 20s too.


  • #65
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Silverfish wrote: »

    And Yellow Ted, a teddy from 1977 :3


    post a pic of you wearing it or gtfo


  • #66
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    You recall God created the Universe right? well I have that crate!


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  • #67
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    My Great Uncles war medals.


  • #68
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    The oldest I have are probably a Freemason medal from 1892 and a Architects textbook from 1853.


  • #69
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    On my mothers side of the family, we have all been christened in the same christening grown past down through the generations(Great grandfather, grandfather, uncle & aunts, 1st cousins and now their children).

    This fear of breaking this tradition has us all shamed in to continued membership of the catholic church. Well played Jesus.


  • #70
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I don't think I own anything older than I am. And I'm only 27.

    I feel so uncultured. :(


  • #71
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Fender F-80-12 acoustic.

    It's a 1976, 12 string, fairly road worn and is the finest sounding guitar I've heard or played.

    Paid next to nothing for it as well :D


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  • #72
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    a first edition of mein kampf - and its signed by you know who :eek:


  • #73
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    dj jarvis wrote: »
    a first edition of mein kampf - and its signed by you know who :eek:

    Seriously?


  • #74
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Seriously?

    Serious as ball cancer


  • #75
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I have a 1898 Ericson Skeleton phone. My dad (RIP) collected antique phones and this was one if them. There is an older Ericson wooden wall phone in my mums which is from the mid 1880's.


  • #76
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    dj jarvis wrote: »
    Serious as ball cancer

    That'll be worth a few bob I reckon. In a weird sort of way.


  • #77
    bluecode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    If this wasn't an anonymous forum it would be a burglar's shopping list. :cool:

    I was going put forward my 1739 Irish coin weight for valuing foreign coins. Quite rare. Then I remember it's my Mother's actually and I really should give it back.

    So the oldest thing I own is a WW1 British helmet dated 1917. I'd like to say my Grandad wore it at the battle of something or other but no it was apparently issued to an American soldier which is where I bought it from.


  • #78
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    My Technics 1210 turntables are sixteen years old now. As regards music stuff, that was money well spent.


  • #79
    Captain Commie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Captain Commie


    prolly a laptop that is 4 years old, moved country last year and sold most of what we had


  • #80
    peckerhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    A medal my Grandad won as a young fella in the 1904 Shankhill Community Games.

    I'd give it to my son (who has the same name) but the little cúnt would probably swap it for the latest first-person shooter.


  • #81
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    I'm still working out why the mad scientists turned that Rudolf Raspe lads body into film before they buried it. I presume it involved big rollers and heat, but wow.


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  • #82
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Cavehill Red wrote: »
    Nice! Where did you get it?
    I have to admit to an obsession with Neanderthals. I find it incredibly poignant that there were once other humans and now there isn't. I bought one of their hand axes (common enough) on e-bay once just so I could have something that was touched by them and used 30,000 years ago.
    Not that common CR. Earlier (Erectus)hand axes are more common funny enough, Neandertal stuff not so much. Nice find. I share your obsession so have built up a fair old collection over the decades. Nearly all Neandertal, but given the thread title, the oldest human produced object I have is an Oldowan chopper from Africa at around 2 million years old. The oldest thing I have would be a bit of a stony meteorite. They can go back to 4 billion years old. With the crap I've built up over the years my gaff is more like an effin museum. :o:D

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #83
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,713 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Apart from rocks and fossils and my husband, a two volume book called 'Gil Blas' a novel dated 1750-something. Of personal stuff I have my UK identity card and my ration book from post WW2.


  • #84
    jesse pinkman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭jesse pinkman


    We use to live in a really old house in Scotland & one day while rummaging through the attic I discovered a large dusty old metal box which after many hours struggling & bucket loads of sweat, I managed to drag downstairs & into the back of the van, which I then promptly drove down to Sotheby's in London who in exchange for the small fee of 75 quid, correctly identified it as my cold water tank.


  • #85
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    looksee wrote: »
    Of personal stuff I have my UK identity card and my ration book from post WW2.
    Speaking of WW2 stuff, I have a cockpit compass, altimeter the tailwheel from one of these. Tyre still holds air too and the instruments still work. Vorsprung durch technik indeed.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #86
    Maudi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    Cavehill Red wrote: »

    Nice! Where did you get it?
    I have to admit to an obsession with Neanderthals. I find it incredibly poignant that there were once other humans and now there isn't. I bought one of their hand axes (common enough) on e-bay once just so I could have something that was touched by them and used 30,000 years ago.
    found the flint piece while field walking..and opps forgot to mention the tiny crinoid fossil i found estimated at 150 million years old..


  • #87
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    A meteor fragment I got in the Natural History Museum in New York from the Canyon Diablo meteorite. Landed about 49,000 years ago and is dated to be around 4.55 billion years old (± 70 million years or so)


  • #88
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All my Beatles first edition vinyl's, probably not worth a whole lot but an important hand me down that's personal to me nonetheless.....


  • #89
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    A millennium 50 pence piece, I think it's a 1000 years old. Says 988 on it.


  • #90
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I have Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. :D

    The original!? :D

    A coin minted under the reign of Trajan, around 100AD


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  • #91
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    My father collected telephones and when he passed away each of the family kept a couple of the old phones in their own homes. The oldest one i have is probably 1880's

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