What Are The Oldest ?.

What are the Oldest Things/Objects/Memorabilia, You Have In Your Home/Garden ?.
(Excluding The Husband Or Wife Or Partners):WINK1:.
I Have Some Old Comics 1963-64.
I Have My Dads Sea Discharge Book,1944.

What Do You Have ?. .

 

I've got my Grandmothers favourite dish - kept at her bedside for odds & sods.
I've had it more than 50 years. She'd had it since she was married - at least.
That places it at 1918 or thereabouts.
It's not worth anything, but has it's place in the display cabinet. My mother used to use it as an Ash tray at one time??

 

I'm assuming you don't want things of geological timescales so i've scaned this

 

Everything is old or second hand in our house :-(

1740 Longcase clock
1854 Grandmother clock
1785 Chest of Drawers
1872 Copper bed pans three of
Three urns/planters in the Garden circa Elgin Marbles
But the OLDEST is the soil in my greenhouse and garden
about 4.5 Billion years old

Jack McHammocklashing

 

Smart A**** Jack

 

You don't look that old in your pics Zig! It must be all the good livin. and Fresh Air down in Darset

 

And I thought you were an 1890's baby boomer as well Ziggy !
I have just had a think on this question , we don't have anything of any age at all in our house. Seems a shame as I am fascinated by history and pre history , my sister does the family genealogy . Does early IKEA or the middle period MFI count ?

 

You should invite Shiney to Dinner. He's reputed to be a 3 figure artifact

 

That's a good one.

I've got some medals which my grandfather won in the Korean War, plus his Kukri knives (he was an officer in the Ghurkas).

I guess the other oldest things I have are some football programmes from the fifties which my dad gave me (mostly Stoke and Wolves) and Man City ones which I've collected myself

 

I have this ring, inherited from my paternal grandmother, its approximate age 110 years old. Known then as a keeper ring it would probably be called a buckle ring now. It's 14 carat gold and the flowers on it are beautiful. My grandmother had tiny hands and unfortunately I've got large ones, so can only where it on my 'pinky'. It will be past down through our female line.

 

Nice one Sheal. If you have a look at the hallmark, you can find out where it was made & the exact date.

 

I would Ziggy, but I put my magnifying glass away somewhere safe and can't remember where it is.