Oldest thing in your house.

[Council Baby]

AmitG said:

I collect old books. The oldest I have is a Latin bible printed in 1524.

I also have a copy of Ptolemy's "Geographia" - an atlas of all the major countries and regions along with descriptions - from 1594.

Both are still perfectly readable after nearly 500 years. The same will not be said of today's e-books...

Out of interest - with books of that age do you keep them in a special environment/contolled climate to stop them deteriorating? If one wanted a long term investment the right books have always struck me as a reasonable thing. I have no idea why as I've never really looked into it just a thought I keep coming back to. Any insight? Feel free to pm me if you wish to keep the thread on track.

Cheers!

[randlemarcus]

Oak chest from 15something. Not sure the children appreciate it, other than something to put the Xbox controls onto.

[SSC!]

Oldest thing I have in my house is a bit of plasterboard. I knocked down my godmothers house to replace it, on the plasterboard has her fathers writing........





We demolished the house by hand so quite amazing to find it by chance.

[ali_kat]

I also have this, which is the oldest thing I have bought, and it is still in it's original box & packaging



which from the stamps on the box and the first 'royal appointment' inside can be dated to about 1952 (before the Queens Coronation but after her Father's death). If I could make out the date on the Sorting Office Stamp, I'd know exactly how old it was



It's immaculate, and cost me £5 from a house sale in London about 10 years ago

[Penny-lope]

Oh also got an old cast iron fire surround (Ebay purchase years ago)

[Incorrigible]

My staircase (e-bay, not original) is probably late 19th century gothic revival

Got a couple of 16th century glasses, but they're not as cool as the stairs

[IndyAndy777]

My housemate.

[sparks_E39]

A couple of my old toys in the loft date back to when I was 2-3 years old, so 1989ish. Mainly toy cars and Thomas the Tank Train characters. Not worth anything to anyone but would be a shame to let them go.

[pacman06]

SPR2 said:

My Great Grandmother's 'Keeper Ring

Keeper as in, a cheaper ring to stop a more expensive ring from falling off? (that is what google says the original use was for many many moons ago?)

[Cock Womble 7]

Probably these:

[johnbaz]

A 330 year old Wakizashi Samurai sword by Omi Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro..

This one...










there are parts missing from the sword but it doesn't matter to me;)


John

[Famous Graham]

Council Baby said:

A couple of rocks that I suspect are at least a million years old, give or take a few thousand either way.

I know the Peckham crack trade has been going on a bit, but that's taking the piss.

[WhoseGeneration]

Flintstone said:

The stardust in my molecules.

Has to be the truth for all of us?

[Mr Obertshaw]

I have a piece of meteorite somewhere, It must be 3 or 4 billion years old! Other than that everything is 20th century onwards.

[GingerWizard]

Well my mum and dads house is listed as an established residence in 1540.

I'v got some fossils around from 3-4million years ago.

A glass bottle from the 1700's (off a ship wreck)

Also a tea cup from 1600's

[VetteG]

theironduke said:

Couple of bits of furniture are over 200 years old.

I've got a couple of shotguns which are easily over 100 years old but i still shoot them, lovely sensation to use something so old.

Much the same, except only one of my shotguns is over the 100, the other is just under. Furniture includes a Georgean chesterfield, a monks bench, suff like that.

G

[sday12]

[sunnygym]

1981 omega seamaster gown to me by my grandad, still keeps perfect time and never been serviced

[DR10]

Some books from the 1700s.

[PoleDriver]

I have some china/porcelain which dates form 1920's-1950's just trying to find the best place to sell!