What's the Oldest Thing In Your Home?
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What's the Oldest Thing In Your Home?
Random curiosity, but what's the oldest thing that the posters around here own? The house/flat itself no counting if you're a home owner.
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I don't own it, but it's in the house. A foot-powered sewing machine from some point in the 1920's. Don't know an exact year.
Oldest thing I own? A stuffed rabbit I had as a kid that's stored on one of my shelves. 26 years old.
Oldest thing I own? A stuffed rabbit I had as a kid that's stored on one of my shelves. 26 years old.
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Oldest thing I own is my grandmother's awesome little handbag from the general area of 1952. She "loaned" it to me for West Side Story (2005), then realized that I adored it, and told me to keep it. Other than that, we've got a painting circa 1890's, and some jewelry from the same time period.
My personal favorites:
*A handmade dollhouse (dad's dad), ~20 years old
*A handmade rocking dog (also dad's dad), ~20 years old
*A wood-framed glass case containing a gorgeous porcealin doll, purchased by my mother's mother. The case was made by my mother's father. Whole shebang ~15 years old.
Not the oldest, but the niftiest, at least in my book.
My personal favorites:
*A handmade dollhouse (dad's dad), ~20 years old
*A handmade rocking dog (also dad's dad), ~20 years old
*A wood-framed glass case containing a gorgeous porcealin doll, purchased by my mother's mother. The case was made by my mother's father. Whole shebang ~15 years old.
Not the oldest, but the niftiest, at least in my book.
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Don't you own a copy of SR 1? That's 20 years or so, isn't it? So hah! You've got old stuff! YOU'RE OLD! FACE IT!Serious Paul wrote:Unless I am mistaken I own nothing of any significant age, nor will I ever if it can be helped. I don't like collecting lots of stuff.
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I will have to look, but I think my ex ended up with my cookbook printed back in the early 1800's(1816/1818) otherwise, it will have to be the painting of my wife's great Aunt Malsey done around the late 1700's early 1800's.
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I don't have any antiques or anything, so I think it might be the original printing of Stephen King's "The Long Walk" (published under the Richard Bachman name)-- maybe I have some comics that are older, but I can't think of any of note.
I don't have any antiques or anything, so I think it might be the original printing of Stephen King's "The Long Walk" (published under the Richard Bachman name)-- maybe I have some comics that are older, but I can't think of any of note.
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I would probably have to say the oldest thing in my house is a stoneware plate setting. My parents gave it to me when I moved the last time...they got it for their wedding, 30 years ago. So it's roughly 30 years old. Maybe some pictures, but I'm not sure of them.
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3278 wrote:Then, no, it's not the oldest thing in your home. Grampa-in-law.Bishop wrote:I would probably have to say the oldest thing in my house is a stoneware plate setting. My parents gave it to me when I moved the last time...they got it for their wedding, 30 years ago. So it's roughly 30 years old.
Is that a legitimate thing?
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Since the 20s? Eeeeeeeeeeeeee.Jeff Hauze wrote:Reading Sal's post while slightly bleary-eyed leads to some funny ideas of him keeping his first girlfriend locked up in a glass case.
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"Drop it, you pervert!"
"Ma'am? Ma'am! You are very round."
"It's a hump-a-palooza today."
"Everybody get away from the poop bucket!"
"Drop it, you pervert!"
"Ma'am? Ma'am! You are very round."
"It's a hump-a-palooza today."
"Everybody get away from the poop bucket!"
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Limiting myself just to what I own personally, I think it'd be a pair of Crimean war cavalry sabers. There's a lot of really odd shit around my house though so I could have forgotten something.
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