Your oldest possession?

12-02-2016 12:01AM

Every one of my (are they mine or my parents?) christening cards from 1989 are in the attic at home. Nothing old of mine really springs to mind to be honest. Have a fcuk load of old vinyl in the attic at home too. Ranges from the mid 70's to the early 00's. Bought it all (200+ records) for €20 in 2014 off a fella in work who had no room for them anymore so that doesn't really count :P Plenty of other crap in that attic too.

The most valuable and irreplaceable thing I have is my late fathers wedding ring. Sentimental value though. I checked :pac: I honestly couldn't give a toss about anything else except that ring.

Beasty · 12-02-2016 12:08AM

ken wrote: »

I rescued 2 books from an office clear out that were going to the dump.

I picked up a box of property deeds going back to the late 18th century in the same way (think the oldest is dated somewhere around 1767).

Also have a football programme from 1908 (Aston Villa v Man Utd in the FA Cup) which is worth a few bob nowadays

sligojoek · 12-02-2016 12:58AM

uch wrote: »

I've been wearing the same pair of Underpants since 1981, the multi coloured paisley ones, does that count

I've no doubt tey're multi-coloured.

sligojoek · 12-02-2016 01:09AM

I've a collection of 'Brittool' and 'King Dick' spanners that my late father bought 2nd hand in the early 1960s. They were used every day from then until 2000. Still as good as new. I still use them occasionally tinkering with motorbikes.

A book 'Whisky Galore' from the 1940s

A Honda CB-X 1978. Something like this but not as good.

http://www.classic-japanese-bikes.com/images/Honda1980cbx1000xx.jpg

looksee · 12-02-2016 09:24PM

We have a piece of the Berlin wall that my daughter got in Berlin the year after it came down. At least that's what it was sold to her as. Could be I suppose, cube of dense concrete with a touch of paint - grafitti I suppose) on it. There is a long narrow shelf halfway up the stairs that has collected all manner of bits of rocks, fossils and shells on it, divil to dust.

timthumbni · 12-02-2016 09:32PM

A Super Nintendo from around 1990. And it's still running like a dream. Super Mario loyal.

bonzodog2 · 12-02-2016 09:43PM

I have a Union Pacific Railroad map and timetable/price list from 1877
I'm not that old though, that's just the oldest thing, rather than the thing I've had longest!

dr.fuzzenstein · 12-02-2016 10:04PM

Oldest piece would be this 1912 Longines watch handed down to me through the family:

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/303951/348965.jpg

After that my brother's Beatles records from the 70's. If you said I could only rescue one of the 2 from a burning building, i would have to burn to a crisp along with them, because I won't be able to make up my mind. Especially if I couldn't also bring my family pictures from the 70's and 80's.
Otherwise I think possessions are nice, but the rest is just stuff and I don't care about it.

edit:
Almost forgot! Papers from the local authority about my parent's house in Germany dating back to 1913. What they are about is hard to say, since they are handwritten in a very old script and quite battered, so they are hard to make out.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 12-02-2016 10:08PM

A 2nd edition book by Thomas Edison(1909 I think) given to me by my mother when I started my apprenticeship all those years ago.

harry Bailey esq · 12-02-2016 11:56PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Oldest piece would be this 1912 Longines watch handed down to me through the family:

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/303951/348965.jpg

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Beautiful timepiece, never let that leave the family

aaronjumper · 12-02-2016 11:59PM

I have most of the toys I was bought when I was a child. I figure if I ever have a child of my own intentionally or otherwise it might be nice to pass them on.
Mostly because Toy Story. Damn you Toy Story.

EDIT: Probably my Micro Machines, had them since before I turned eight. I think.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 13-02-2016 12:18AM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Beautiful timepiece, never let that leave the family

Reminds me of this.

Ruu · 13-02-2016 12:19AM

Beano annual from 1987.

Wibbs · 13-02-2016 12:41AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah wibbs. We should have known you'd trump us all

I bet your first pet was a dinosaur :pac:

Feck off! :mad: Though...:pac: To be fair Whoops* I kinda live in a 21st century version of a 16th century cabinet of curiosities. Shít as we speak I'm wearing a watch from 1916, while wondering how I'm gonna display a 1968 flight checklist for a Saturn V Apollo rocket, while a late Jacobean sideboard cries out for beeswax in the corner. Funny enough I don't think I have any dinosaur bits and bobs. I do have a bit of a Cave Bear jaw somewhere mind you.

* the fact I have "Whoops" added as a word in my dictionary speaks volumes…

jimgoose · 13-02-2016 12:47AM

Wibbs wrote: »

Another Teddy Bear type here. He's somewhere in my attic(though I actually don't know where. Haven't seen him for a while. ). Still use regularly? Probably my 1980 Seiko LCD calculator watch. Oldest manmade item would be an Oldowan stone chopper from a couple of million years back, beyond that fossils that would be hundreds of millions of years old and I have a meteorite somewhere and that could be billions of years old.

Oh yeah? Oh yeah?? Well I have bits of... the Big Bang! In a... fcukan... jam-jar! So I have!!

Wibbs · 13-02-2016 12:53AM

jimgoose wrote: »

Oh yeah? Oh yeah?? Well I have bits of... the Big Bang! In a... fcukan... jam-jar! So I have!!

Funny you should mention that and now that I come to think about it…

between the : and the D, dive in further and further.. and further again and more for luck. Right down beyond the Planck length if you squint real hard, you'll see a quantum foam slice of mattergy from about 60 years after the initial expositional expansion, but before inflation. It's a curse to label I can tell you that for nothing.

jimgoose · 13-02-2016 01:01AM

Wibbs wrote: »

Funny you should mention that and now that I come to think about it…

between the : and the D, dive in further and further.. and further again and more for luck. Right down beyond the Planck length if you squint real hard, you'll see a quantum foam slice of mattergy from about 60 years after the initial expositional expansion, but before inflation. It's a curse to label I can tell you that for nothing.

That's a very old pube. But not that old. Put down the Courvoisier!

SmartinMartin · 13-02-2016 01:08AM

a James II shilling from march 1690 that I dug out of the back garden. Humbled by it, really.

timthumbni · 13-02-2016 01:20AM

SmartinMartin wrote: »

a James II shilling from march 1690 that I dug out of the back garden. Humbled by it, really.

Would you like to sell it? How much?

The Princess Bride · 13-02-2016 03:02AM

I have my grandmother's rose gold wedding ring which is 85+ years old.
I never met her as she died before my parents married, so it's rather special to have it.

kowloon · 13-02-2016 03:14AM

A Marathon bar.

iamstop · 13-02-2016 03:41AM

I've a few 78s from the 40s knocking about in my collection. Oldest records I play out would prob be early 60s.

Witchie · 13-02-2016 04:25AM

I suppose one of the oldest thing I own is my engagement ring. It's from 1916. Anyone want to buy it? I have some World War II binoculars, an antique perfume bottle, an antique heart locket, a Victorian linen closet and an original Frigidaire. My favourite thing though is my debs dress. It is an original 1950's ball gown.

Things I have had the longest though are some cuddly toys from my childhood including an Ernie from Sesame Street that someone bought me when I was a baby. Also a green and white gingham "creature" of some sort that I called Fargle for some reason. I think it was coz I overheard some of our Belfast neighbours in Canada saying Fergal and thought it was a great name for my teddy.

I have a dress that was mine when I was a baby too. It is on one of my early childhood dolls.

SmartinMartin · 13-02-2016 05:01AM

timthumbni wrote: »

Would you like to sell it? How much?

Never thought of it, but now that you ask I suppose not thanks, it's like part of the history of the house or something. It certainly puts our short lifespan in perspective.

Adorable · 13-02-2016 05:20AM

My oldest possession would probably have to be my blankie that I've had since I was less than one years old! I still sleep with it sometimes.

Frynge · 13-02-2016 05:33AM

Not mine but my da's, a first print of the translation of Martin Luther 's letter. It is in old English and quite hard to read but equally cool. My own oldest possession would be a bottle of port from 1899.

Wibbs · 13-02-2016 10:31AM

SmartinMartin wrote: »

a James II shilling from march 1690 that I dug out of the back garden. Humbled by it, really.

Now that's pretty cool.

osarusan · 13-02-2016 10:58AM

Actually, tidying up my daughter's room a bit, I found a trilobite fossil I bought her in a Japanese museum. It's apparently 260 million years old (give or take a few milion).

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-02-2016 11:01AM

When I was about 4 or 5, I got really really sick. I can't remember what was wrong with me but I know it was pretty serious. I was allowed sleep in my parents bed when my dad came in, woke me up and was pointing to the corner of the room, telling me to look. There was the biggest teddy bear id ever seen. He was much bigger than I was. Still have it. Still love it.

also, had a teddy/pillow hippo from when I was a baby. He was so old that he was completely flat, and all baubly from being in the wash so much over the years. He was my absolute favourite. He would have been my 1 thing to save in a fire. He came everywhere with me. Holidays, sleepovers, when I moved away for college.
Then one time I left him somewhere, and couldn't find him and I was absolutely devastated.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-02-2016 11:01AM

When I was about 4 or 5, I got really really sick. I can't remember what was wrong with me but I know it was pretty serious. I was allowed sleep in my parents bed when my dad came in, woke me up and was pointing to the corner of the room, telling me to look. There was the biggest teddy bear id ever seen. He was much bigger than I was. Still have it. Still love it.

also, had a teddy/pillow hippo from when I was a baby. He was so old that he was completely flat, and all baubly from being in the wash so much over the years. He was my absolute favourite. He would have been my 1 thing to save in a fire. He came everywhere with me. Holidays, sleepovers, when I moved away for college.
Then one time I left him somewhere, and couldn't find him and I was absolutely devastated.

Your oldest possession?

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