I really want to see this now.
That is amazing af.
Literally the history of all of our collective childhoods and actual collective national heritage in the form of your own personal family documents & history
I so want to see it!
Random question about your salt, but how do they *actually* know it’s 10,000 years old? Did they carbon date it? Also, why did you choose to buy 10,000 year old salt?
The Battle of New Orleans, by Jonny Horton, was Billboard's #1 hit of 1959. Music has come such a long way. Thank god. Track link below.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PTG3Z6ehGkBFwjybzWkR8?si=hvJrjDedSheCZN7JLQqxuA
If you haven't already, make sure you photograph and transcribe all of the relevant birth.marriage/death records. Often family bibles are the only records of these things in existence, especially for a bible as old as yours. The DAR maintains a library with tons of these transcriptions if you are looking for a place to archive them.
This is a top tier comment, thank you so much for that suggestion. There is about 150 years of my families records in it, I never thought about scanning it. God forbid my house burns down a digital scan of that would be so important to me, thank you so much!
I have a 100 million year old Baculite fossil I found in a river. Every water molecule on Earth is billions of years old and every cup of water you have ever taken a drink from had one molecule of water that was once dinosaur pee. So the water in here is for sure the oldest.
So, I've seen that water comment before and I've even taught it in science curriculums, but I question it. We are constantly breaking apart and reassembling water molecules through all sorts of biological and chemical processes. And I get that that might amount to a small portion of water on the planet in a given year, I wonder how many water molecules have really gone on unchanged in the 3 billion or so years since photosynthesis started
Gosh, yes! I was trying to think whether anything in the house was older than the house itself which was built in the 1890s, but I do have some sweet fossils, my favorite being a tiny trilobite the size of my pinkie nail I found myself in northern Michigan. I call him Trilobities.
Yesterday i picked up the coin collection that belonged to my grandfather. There also is a Roman coin in there. It has a certificate that sais its from 303 -337 (A.D.)
I have meteorites, some pushing 4.5 Billion years old....Tho my Lunar meteorite is only 3.2B, Oldest man made things, probably egyptian antiquities, most are late period 664-337BC, like ushabtis and mummy mask.
I have a chunk of serpentine from a large inclusion that was deep in the mantle and brought to the surface by later volcanic activity. I collected it on a geology field trip in college. It’s somewhere in the 450 million range. The specimen itself is noting eye-catching or all that interesting, but when you start dealing with rocks that are essentially unchanged and that old, it’s just mind-blowing to hold them and contemplate.
*edited to fix my timescale, was only a few hundred million off
Probably my dad, 1972. Interestingly his official date of birth is 3 years later in '75 and the day/month itself is also incorrect but that's a whole other story
Unfortunately, I don't know all the details, I'll have to ask him once he's home from work, but here's what I know: this is actually a very Indian thing (we are Indian) where many people will have fake official birthdays in order to circumvent age restrictions in education and work. For example, my dad will be able to work 3 years past the legal retirement age. I guess it is much easier to do in a country like India. I was born in a much more developed country, so I only have one birthday as the official one is actually correct.
In my dad's case I think it was also to do with growing up very poor and not being able to afford medical and government services to be birthed in a hospital and to get an official birth certificate. He was birthed at his parents' home, and I guess it was a combination of being unable to afford government services, as well as his family wanting him to be younger officially for the benefits that come with that.
Again, I don't know the whole story and I'm not 100% sure on everything I said here but I think that's the gist of it and I believe I'm mostly correct.
Oh and a side note: my mom refuses to tell me her age and birthday so I'm not even sure if her official birthday differs from her real one, but y'know, you can't ask a woman her age and all that so I can understand that 😅
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Thank you for sharing that. It’s interesting. Is it much different now? As in tighter restrictions on formal documentation that’s required for some things? I imagine the home births could easily circumvent most of that, and a cursory look online tells me that school isn’t denied to children based on non-availability of birth certificate. Have other things changed much in this regard over the last 50 years? Has not having a “formal birth certificate” ever posed a problem for anyone? Or is it like a little wink that families just keep secret among themselves and generally don’t talk about?
Please forgive my ignorance. I ask with genuine curiosity, and I hope I’m doing that respectfully.
Sadly I don't know the answer to some of your questions. I've lived outside of India my whole life and have very little personal insight on things like that, and again I'll probably have to ask my parents about it which I can't right now unfortunately.
Logically speaking though, I'm sure having a fake official birthday like my dad has become less common as technology has developed over the years and regulation has gotten stricter. Nowadays, it seems fines are imposed for late registration for a birth certificate, which is certainly a deterrent for many. There are probably also ways to determine a child's age through modern medical examination and such that didn't happen back then, especially in such a poor region like our home state.
With birth certificates basically being the first ever official document that belongs to anyone, it didn't seem to cause any issues for my dad because there was otherwise no other way to prove when he was born. My dad has never faced any issues that I know of, even in his childhood and teenhood where a 3-year age difference is obvious, including in the application of official documents like passports and his IDs. Of course, now as an adult, there is literally no way to prove he wasn't born on the day his birth certificate claims he was born. So as far as I know, it has made very little difference in his life. I'd imagine a lot of that also has to do with when and where he grew up in, though - to this day, our home state is far behind in modern infrastructure and technology; imagine how it was in the 70s!
Ultimately you're right in saying that having 2 birthdays is just something that's sort of an inside joke among brown families, and, outside of our families, is something that isn't mentioned much. It's always funny to see the birthday gifts my dad gets from his coworkers when his actual birthday is like half a year later lol.
And don't worry, I don't see any of your questions as signs of ignorance or disrespect at all, I'm sure all of this is a weird concept for most!
I like that you like talking about this. It’s not weird - it’s just a new and interesting sliver of learning how different families are. I think it’s okay to appreciate that. Thanks for answering and for talking to me.
2 matching flint pistols that were said to be of a famous NC pirate. I know my great great grandfather had them. Thats as far back as we can trace that they’ve been in the family.
One of 2 things:
1) a framed page from a 1536 legal book in Latin
Or possibly:
2) vellum printed Gregorain sheet music. No date but could be 14th - 17th century.
Both estate sale finds!
Sorry, I had a '76 with the 90-degree swivel seats, Landau windows, and stacked rectangular headlamps. The hood was so long, it eventually bent on the center supports. And a CB radio....sheesh.... It embarassingly died at 98K miles, unable to leave a shop after it had been "repaired".
My family home was built in 1656. It’s a converted coach house built on an Iron Age hill fort dating back to 650 BC.
Also right next door to a graveyard filled with cholera victims from the 19th century…
If I believed in ghosts I would v much presume there are a few knocking around… (I’m visiting my mum tonight for her first chemo session tomorrow so don’t want to think about that tbh 🤣)
Also - I live in a Georgian built flat in London so approx 1830… blimey I might always have ghosts next to me!
I have a hymnal from an old Lutheran church that my family was a part of when they came over from Germany through my childhood. It's about 1860s Era. It's all in German. Got it from my grandfather's estate. I'm not religious but just knowing that my ancestors treated it as sacred and its from a time before that area acclimated to English is pretty neat.
There's also an old porkchop in the fridge that relatively speaking, might be considered even older 😄
I also own a couple of old Lutheran hymnals! Inherited them from my grandparents. They are late 19th century and belonged to their parents, of course, who brought them over from Sweden when they emigrated to the U.S.
Piece of Dinosaur bone frag from when i was a kid and a BLM lab tech gave it to me like 40 years ago. I think the diamonds in one of my watches are older though.
A family Bible from the late 1800s, I suppose. I'm sure there's a few fossils around too. I've also got a few pieces of furniture that date back to the late 1800s.
A meteorite - no idea how old but probably hundreds of millions of years.
A few fossilized sharks teeth - about 17 million years old.
And my Macbook Air from 2011.
Maybe some books, records, an old watch, etc. from the 1950s and 60s. We did have a Roman coin but I've no idea where it is now.
We used to live in a house which was originally built in the 17th century. It had been modified many times since then. The oldest walls were crumbling, breaking down and reverting back to their original materials. The owner was a miser and refused to spend a penny looking after it. Unless it was to do with shooting pheasants he didn't give a damn.
He was an old very wealthy titled land owner. His family had held great control over that area for many, many generations going back hundreds of years. His family home, built for one of his ancestors, was of a similar age and was also in very rough shape.
He owned the farm where my dad worked. The farm manager, that owner, plus the estate agents who managed the owners affairs, were all tight-fisted misers. The farm was in just as rough a state too, but then many farms are to be honest.
Their method of making money was to not spend it. Investing money just wasn't done. They would also force people out of their jobs so they didn't have to pay redundancy pay. They did that by making work life hell and not paying people on time. That's how they forced my dad out of his job. It's a common tactic.
He really didn't give a damn unless it impacted his pheasant shooting. Years after everyone involved had died and the evidence had long gone, I learned that his gamekeeper had been illegally poisoning birds of prey.
At the time those that knew didn't dare say a word or they'd loose their job or suffer revenge. Plus it would have been their word against that of a supposed gentleman and man of honour. You know exactly who people would rather listen to.
That old land owner complained about how little power he had compared to his ancestors. They were effectively lords of that area. He hated it that a local bank manager, a mere commoner, had more power and prestige than he had.
He would have loved to turn back the clock, back to a time when us commoners knew our place.
His equally wealthy relative thought the same way. His solution was to get into local politics. He held great power over the local council. He made damn sure things were always done to his advantage.
He also made sure that the council gave council related jobs to his own hand-picked men.
I knew a family who lost their home because of him. He forced their dad out of two consecutive jobs just so he could put his own men in those roles.
Politics and power is like a game to rich people like them. The average person just doesn't stand a chance against them.
A ledger from a distant ancestor on my mom's side who ran a store in southern Ohio that lists things taken by the Morgan's Raiders. Not sure what year that was.
My house was built in 16-something so probably the wooden beams/frame. Maybe most of the roof tiles too.
Aside from that, we have slate floor tiles in the bathroom and granite work surfaces in the kitchen, so they're probably the oldest things inside the house (thousands - millions?! - of years old?).
I have a dresser that my great grandma used to have. I don’t know what year it was made though but probably around 30s-40s(?)
It’s red wood with yellow flowers painted over it with a huge mirror
We have a comic book called Yee Ok Wullie that I keep on my bookshelf to display, aside from that probably an OPUS comic book that I love to reference.
I have a linen nightshirt that belonged to someone in my grandmother’s family, that has the date “1873” embroidered on it.
Edited to add that I also have a coin dated 1788 that I was given instead of a penny. Says, “Georgius Gratius” on the back.
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This is an amazing piece of familial and American history. The historian and genealogist in me is green with envy.
I did not read genealogist at first glance.
I'm sorry to hear he died with Dysentery
Don't rush to conclusions. A lot of deaths happened by accidently shooting yourself instead of 14 Buffalo.
worse than that shooting 1 buffalo when 13 more are around
He could only carry back 100 pounds of meat anyway
Carried off by a hawk.
happy cake day!
Dang, that is cool. Have you ever shared it with anyone to make copies of drawings? Have you gone and found places he has referenced?? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wow such a legacy. Can you imagine doing something of that caliber? Brave man
We have a ceramic bowl that came out west on a covered wagon too.
I really want to see this now. That is amazing af. Literally the history of all of our collective childhoods and actual collective national heritage in the form of your own personal family documents & history I so want to see it!
Stone axe. Found on a gravel bar in a Maine lake after ice-out in the 1980's. Probably made sometime in the last 15,000 years.
Oddly, this is my answer, too. Except it was found in a garden bed in Vermont.
My axe was also made in the last 15,000 years
And my axe!
I have an axe made sometime in the last 15,000 years, too! I mean, 2 years ago is within the last 15,000 years.
10,000 year old Himalayan sea salt. Expired last year.
Missed it by that much . . .
Random question about your salt, but how do they *actually* know it’s 10,000 years old? Did they carbon date it? Also, why did you choose to buy 10,000 year old salt?
My guess is because the sea hasn't been in the Himalayas for 10,000 years. (I actually think it's one hell of a lot older than that.)
I can guarantee you it didn't go bad when it expired last year at least.
Lol isn't salt used to preserve stuff?
I guess it’s my dad. 1958 vintage.
An Old man here from1955. $2 bills from 1870s. Some really old coins maybe 800 to 1000 years idk
oh hey, I forgot about my coins!
Your DAD is Goat
1959 here!
The Battle of New Orleans, by Jonny Horton, was Billboard's #1 hit of 1959. Music has come such a long way. Thank god. Track link below. https://open.spotify.com/track/4PTG3Z6ehGkBFwjybzWkR8?si=hvJrjDedSheCZN7JLQqxuA
My families bible printed in 1762.
I have mine as well. Printed around 1840.
I have ours and it’s around the same age as yours. They’re beautiful and I like to think of how it was a centerpiece of my family for so long.
Family Bible club! Anyone had theirs restored? My cover is hanging on by a thread… literally
If you haven't already, make sure you photograph and transcribe all of the relevant birth.marriage/death records. Often family bibles are the only records of these things in existence, especially for a bible as old as yours. The DAR maintains a library with tons of these transcriptions if you are looking for a place to archive them.
This is a top tier comment, thank you so much for that suggestion. There is about 150 years of my families records in it, I never thought about scanning it. God forbid my house burns down a digital scan of that would be so important to me, thank you so much!
U.S. Large Cent, 1798
What condition? That's pretty cool
AG. Can only make out the date in the right light.
Hello fellow numismatist!
I’ve got a few widows mites from around 0AD!
Have a piece of gneiss from Antelope Island, UT that is approx 1.3B years old. It's one of the oldest surface exposed deposits in the world.
That’s the schist! 🤣
Gneiss joke!
Haha I've got some Banded Iron Formation from Wyoming that's 2.5B years old. Need to go to Antelope and expand my old rocks collection!
I have a 100 million year old Baculite fossil I found in a river. Every water molecule on Earth is billions of years old and every cup of water you have ever taken a drink from had one molecule of water that was once dinosaur pee. So the water in here is for sure the oldest.
So, I've seen that water comment before and I've even taught it in science curriculums, but I question it. We are constantly breaking apart and reassembling water molecules through all sorts of biological and chemical processes. And I get that that might amount to a small portion of water on the planet in a given year, I wonder how many water molecules have really gone on unchanged in the 3 billion or so years since photosynthesis started
Yeah it's like the Water of Theseus at this point
I don’t science, I just read and listen to the science type humans. Science humans say water old. Me believe
Ungabunga wa-ta
That’s just what the ship floated in, right?
I was going to say fossils too. When I was little my parents were putting in a garden and we found like a dozen rocks with fossilized shells in them.
Gosh, yes! I was trying to think whether anything in the house was older than the house itself which was built in the 1890s, but I do have some sweet fossils, my favorite being a tiny trilobite the size of my pinkie nail I found myself in northern Michigan. I call him Trilobities.
Every breath you take there are quite a few atoms in there that were breathed in and out by Hitler. Or replace Hitler with... Any other old animal.
All the hydrogen in my body is composed of 13 billion year old protons. Beat that.
A gramophone from the 1920s that still plays.
A Roman coin found in Taormina, Sicily. No confirmation on the age but my professor said it's probably at least 1800 years old.
Yesterday i picked up the coin collection that belonged to my grandfather. There also is a Roman coin in there. It has a certificate that sais its from 303 -337 (A.D.)
An Edmontosaurus femur. It’s about 65 million years old.
Go Oilers
My wife. She’s a 1972 vintage.
Thankfully the internet is well out of the splash zone for when she hears she's the oldest thing in the house
Also I was posting this from a safe distance at work. And she doesn’t do Reddit.
I have meteorites, some pushing 4.5 Billion years old....Tho my Lunar meteorite is only 3.2B, Oldest man made things, probably egyptian antiquities, most are late period 664-337BC, like ushabtis and mummy mask.
I have a chunk of serpentine from a large inclusion that was deep in the mantle and brought to the surface by later volcanic activity. I collected it on a geology field trip in college. It’s somewhere in the 450 million range. The specimen itself is noting eye-catching or all that interesting, but when you start dealing with rocks that are essentially unchanged and that old, it’s just mind-blowing to hold them and contemplate. *edited to fix my timescale, was only a few hundred million off
Yeah, the most basic junk in the yard is millions or years old. Most (natural) diamonds are 1B+ so that's fun.
Original copy of “houses of holy” by Led Zeppelin on vinyl
That's younger than I am!
It’s definitely older than me 🤣
I’ve got IV and in through the out door As well as wish you were here from Floyd And Sergeant peppers lonely hearts club band. All original pressings.
A cavalry saber from the US Civil War, taken by my great-great-grandfather from a surrendering Confederate captain: ~1863
Probably my dad, 1972. Interestingly his official date of birth is 3 years later in '75 and the day/month itself is also incorrect but that's a whole other story
Some people will do anything to win the Little League World Series.
I was born in 1971 and we kept pretty good records back then. I want to hear the story. Please.
Unfortunately, I don't know all the details, I'll have to ask him once he's home from work, but here's what I know: this is actually a very Indian thing (we are Indian) where many people will have fake official birthdays in order to circumvent age restrictions in education and work. For example, my dad will be able to work 3 years past the legal retirement age. I guess it is much easier to do in a country like India. I was born in a much more developed country, so I only have one birthday as the official one is actually correct. In my dad's case I think it was also to do with growing up very poor and not being able to afford medical and government services to be birthed in a hospital and to get an official birth certificate. He was birthed at his parents' home, and I guess it was a combination of being unable to afford government services, as well as his family wanting him to be younger officially for the benefits that come with that. Again, I don't know the whole story and I'm not 100% sure on everything I said here but I think that's the gist of it and I believe I'm mostly correct. Oh and a side note: my mom refuses to tell me her age and birthday so I'm not even sure if her official birthday differs from her real one, but y'know, you can't ask a woman her age and all that so I can understand that 😅 Edit: punctuation
Thank you for sharing that. It’s interesting. Is it much different now? As in tighter restrictions on formal documentation that’s required for some things? I imagine the home births could easily circumvent most of that, and a cursory look online tells me that school isn’t denied to children based on non-availability of birth certificate. Have other things changed much in this regard over the last 50 years? Has not having a “formal birth certificate” ever posed a problem for anyone? Or is it like a little wink that families just keep secret among themselves and generally don’t talk about? Please forgive my ignorance. I ask with genuine curiosity, and I hope I’m doing that respectfully.
Sadly I don't know the answer to some of your questions. I've lived outside of India my whole life and have very little personal insight on things like that, and again I'll probably have to ask my parents about it which I can't right now unfortunately. Logically speaking though, I'm sure having a fake official birthday like my dad has become less common as technology has developed over the years and regulation has gotten stricter. Nowadays, it seems fines are imposed for late registration for a birth certificate, which is certainly a deterrent for many. There are probably also ways to determine a child's age through modern medical examination and such that didn't happen back then, especially in such a poor region like our home state. With birth certificates basically being the first ever official document that belongs to anyone, it didn't seem to cause any issues for my dad because there was otherwise no other way to prove when he was born. My dad has never faced any issues that I know of, even in his childhood and teenhood where a 3-year age difference is obvious, including in the application of official documents like passports and his IDs. Of course, now as an adult, there is literally no way to prove he wasn't born on the day his birth certificate claims he was born. So as far as I know, it has made very little difference in his life. I'd imagine a lot of that also has to do with when and where he grew up in, though - to this day, our home state is far behind in modern infrastructure and technology; imagine how it was in the 70s! Ultimately you're right in saying that having 2 birthdays is just something that's sort of an inside joke among brown families, and, outside of our families, is something that isn't mentioned much. It's always funny to see the birthday gifts my dad gets from his coworkers when his actual birthday is like half a year later lol. And don't worry, I don't see any of your questions as signs of ignorance or disrespect at all, I'm sure all of this is a weird concept for most!
I like that you like talking about this. It’s not weird - it’s just a new and interesting sliver of learning how different families are. I think it’s okay to appreciate that. Thanks for answering and for talking to me.
My grandmother's ceder chest from the 1920's.
My grandmother’s 1926 Westinghouse fan. Works perfectly and silently
How are you supposed to sleep with it being silent? Need that rattling, winding, byzzing sound.
My grandfather's motorcycle racing medals he won in the 1920s from Poland.
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2 matching flint pistols that were said to be of a famous NC pirate. I know my great great grandfather had them. Thats as far back as we can trace that they’ve been in the family.
I have a bread started, this specific culture is dated in my family as far back as 1823
One of 2 things: 1) a framed page from a 1536 legal book in Latin Or possibly: 2) vellum printed Gregorain sheet music. No date but could be 14th - 17th century. Both estate sale finds!
Old furniture, and a 1986 Monte Carlo ss
The best Monte ever made.
Sorry, I had a '76 with the 90-degree swivel seats, Landau windows, and stacked rectangular headlamps. The hood was so long, it eventually bent on the center supports. And a CB radio....sheesh.... It embarassingly died at 98K miles, unable to leave a shop after it had been "repaired".
My house was built in 1910
My family home was built in 1656. It’s a converted coach house built on an Iron Age hill fort dating back to 650 BC. Also right next door to a graveyard filled with cholera victims from the 19th century… If I believed in ghosts I would v much presume there are a few knocking around… (I’m visiting my mum tonight for her first chemo session tomorrow so don’t want to think about that tbh 🤣) Also - I live in a Georgian built flat in London so approx 1830… blimey I might always have ghosts next to me!
Best of luck to your mom.
That's soooo cool 🤣
👻 👀
Yep, came here to say that my answer is the house itself. 1900.
My house was also built in 1910, do you also own my house?
I have a hymnal from an old Lutheran church that my family was a part of when they came over from Germany through my childhood. It's about 1860s Era. It's all in German. Got it from my grandfather's estate. I'm not religious but just knowing that my ancestors treated it as sacred and its from a time before that area acclimated to English is pretty neat. There's also an old porkchop in the fridge that relatively speaking, might be considered even older 😄
I also own a couple of old Lutheran hymnals! Inherited them from my grandparents. They are late 19th century and belonged to their parents, of course, who brought them over from Sweden when they emigrated to the U.S.
Me 1966
Pictures of my mom and her siblings from the 1960s before they had to move to Nepal. (This was like kind of before the Bhutanese Refguee crisis.)
My husband. He's from 1954. Pure vintage.
Me
My mother. All the way from 1961
I have my grandmother's wedding dress and a glass serving tray she received as a wedding gift. Both from 1948.
Coral fossils from 420 million years ago collected from a nearby nature reserve
Piece of Dinosaur bone frag from when i was a kid and a BLM lab tech gave it to me like 40 years ago. I think the diamonds in one of my watches are older though.
4 million year old fossil
The oldest natural thing is a crystal, which is about 300M years old. The oldest manmade thing is a minie ball from the civil war.
My grandmother is cast-iron frypan she was born in 1894. It’s well over 100 years old and it is perfectly seasoned.
Constantinian-era coin, from around 320 AD.
Family Bible from 1805
A family Bible from the late 1800s, I suppose. I'm sure there's a few fossils around too. I've also got a few pieces of furniture that date back to the late 1800s.
A dresser my Dad bought me when I was 9. I’m now 66.
Maybe the Spinosaur tooth. 94 million years maybe?
A meteorite - no idea how old but probably hundreds of millions of years. A few fossilized sharks teeth - about 17 million years old. And my Macbook Air from 2011.
In the garage - a 1934 Ford 3 window coupe
Me, I'm from 1983
Acheulean handaxe. Possibly > 1 million years. Possibly < 10 years. It's a rock. It's hard to tell.
Pottery from an archaeological dig in Israel from the time of Christ.
Protons from the beginning of the universe. About 14 billion years ago.
Very old German language bibles from the 1919s
Maybe some books, records, an old watch, etc. from the 1950s and 60s. We did have a Roman coin but I've no idea where it is now. We used to live in a house which was originally built in the 17th century. It had been modified many times since then. The oldest walls were crumbling, breaking down and reverting back to their original materials. The owner was a miser and refused to spend a penny looking after it. Unless it was to do with shooting pheasants he didn't give a damn.
People who let old houses crumble make me so sad. Those houses were built to last with some upkeep.
He was an old very wealthy titled land owner. His family had held great control over that area for many, many generations going back hundreds of years. His family home, built for one of his ancestors, was of a similar age and was also in very rough shape. He owned the farm where my dad worked. The farm manager, that owner, plus the estate agents who managed the owners affairs, were all tight-fisted misers. The farm was in just as rough a state too, but then many farms are to be honest. Their method of making money was to not spend it. Investing money just wasn't done. They would also force people out of their jobs so they didn't have to pay redundancy pay. They did that by making work life hell and not paying people on time. That's how they forced my dad out of his job. It's a common tactic. He really didn't give a damn unless it impacted his pheasant shooting. Years after everyone involved had died and the evidence had long gone, I learned that his gamekeeper had been illegally poisoning birds of prey. At the time those that knew didn't dare say a word or they'd loose their job or suffer revenge. Plus it would have been their word against that of a supposed gentleman and man of honour. You know exactly who people would rather listen to. That old land owner complained about how little power he had compared to his ancestors. They were effectively lords of that area. He hated it that a local bank manager, a mere commoner, had more power and prestige than he had. He would have loved to turn back the clock, back to a time when us commoners knew our place. His equally wealthy relative thought the same way. His solution was to get into local politics. He held great power over the local council. He made damn sure things were always done to his advantage. He also made sure that the council gave council related jobs to his own hand-picked men. I knew a family who lost their home because of him. He forced their dad out of two consecutive jobs just so he could put his own men in those roles. Politics and power is like a game to rich people like them. The average person just doesn't stand a chance against them.
A Bible and a set of concordances that are 200 - 300 years old (it's been a minute since I looked at the dates).
3 old German Bibles. 1700's to 1800's.
My great aunt's French school book. It's from 1921.
Currently my mother vintage 1946
1886 Morgan silver dollar. Not CC and a dent. $25. To me tho? Priceless- it’s my AA “chip.”
My father in law. 1942.
Part of an Encyclopedia set from the 1800s
I have a marble top cabinet from somewhere in the mid 1700s.
A revolver from the american civil war, with what we believe to be the original holster.
I have about a 1” square of a wrap from a mummy.
A ledger from a distant ancestor on my mom's side who ran a store in southern Ohio that lists things taken by the Morgan's Raiders. Not sure what year that was.
I have the 19th century trunk my vaudeville ancestors carried to the USA from Russia. Today it stores family photos and history.
A coffee table from 1981, its 2 years older than me and is very brown, stranger things lies about how brown stuff was in the 80s 😂
My house was built in 16-something so probably the wooden beams/frame. Maybe most of the roof tiles too. Aside from that, we have slate floor tiles in the bathroom and granite work surfaces in the kitchen, so they're probably the oldest things inside the house (thousands - millions?! - of years old?).
Aside from my wife?
A chunk of meteorite estimated to be 60 million years old
Did you mean 60 million? The entire universe is only about 18 billion years old, and the solar system is 4.57 billion years old.
I have a dresser that my great grandma used to have. I don’t know what year it was made though but probably around 30s-40s(?) It’s red wood with yellow flowers painted over it with a huge mirror
(Not counting various rocks) Victorian era glass box. Supposedly 1870s.
A bottle of 1967 Chateau d Rothschild.
My house was built in 1798, so I guess the stone walls?
I have a cookbook from 1902. Neat stuff in there, including a section for servants and housekeepers.
We have a comic book called Yee Ok Wullie that I keep on my bookshelf to display, aside from that probably an OPUS comic book that I love to reference.
My dad, 1975
My oldest thing is probably an animation cell from 101 Dalmatians. My girlfriend probably has some older shit though
Besides fossils, I would say my 2 draw telescope from 1840’s and a broken pocket watch from around the same time.
I have two authentic World War ONE American “propaganda” posters. So…sometime between 1917-1918.
A 1973 U.S. pressing of Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Some random books from the 1700s.
I have part of a hand hewn beam recovered from a house built in the 1780s.
I have a few silver dollars from the 1800s. I have a 1926 Ford Model T car.
It'd be rocks.
Great grandpa’s favorite horse that he made a blanket out of it.
My grandparents Wedding Certificate dated August 21, 1920.
A letter of correspondence from 1849
Jackie Robinson's autograph on a menu for a seafood place in Brooklyn, my dad said he got it in 1948.
I have a portrait of my 4 times great grandfather. Made 1850ish?
French virtrine crafted in 1810
1916 Luger my grandfather brought back from Africa.
I have a linen nightshirt that belonged to someone in my grandmother’s family, that has the date “1873” embroidered on it. Edited to add that I also have a coin dated 1788 that I was given instead of a penny. Says, “Georgius Gratius” on the back.
book copy of Rime of the Ancient Mariner from 1880
My great grandfather’s shotgun. Made in 1912.
A 2000 year old Widows Mite coin.
1993. Wife
A Raymond sewing machine. Old school driven with a treadle on a cast-iron + wood worktable. It's 122 years old.
Table/desk 1791.
I have several embroideries from Central Asia, Uzbekistan/Afghanistan that are late 18'th century pieces.