What are the Oldest Objects you Own?

[Magister]

Can you show a closeup of the goddess? Maybe I can figure it out.

 

[rue]

Here she is:

Thank you in advance if you can figure it out

 

[Magister]

I'm going to say Venus due to the birds. Doves are one of her symbols in Venus iconography.

 

[Bob_Fixico]

I have a desk that belong to my great aunt it was built around 1900. She was a school teacher and it was her issued desk that was in her first classroom around 1920 give or take a year. the next year she was given a new desk ad she took the old one home. It was left to me after her death in 1986.

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

Hmm, well I have some ties that date back to the 40's, a couple dozen 7 and 12 inch records from the 50's. That's probably as far back as my stuff goes.

 

[MissMittens]

1860 couch for me. Someone I know has the record for something old - she has a violin dating back to 1674, I can't beat that

 

[Shangas]

Is it a Stradivarius?

 

[MissMittens]

Is it a Stradivarius?

No, it's Von Sch-something. She does have a "Stradivarius" as well, except that the label inside is printed....a very poor copy. Sounds great though, but definitely not a real Strad. It was a "bring back" from just after WW2 that she found in a yard sale for a couple of bucks. Apparently it's rife

http://www.fritz-reuter.com/DOC/articles/artiexp1.htm

 

[WH1]

Victorian Parlor Set, corner chair, side chair, settee and arm chair 1860's

Pennsylvania dutch bible dating to 1780 in German.

Chinese Illuminated text 1500's supposedly

 

[rue]

I'm going to say Venus due to the birds. Doves are one of her symbols in Venus iconography.

Thank you Magister! I think you're right

 

[HodgePodge]

To my knowledge, the oldest object in my hoard of inherited items is a history book published, and gifted, in 1857. A little letter inside the front cover leads me to believe it was a gift to my grandmother's grandparents.
Next after that would be a whole whack of papers (deeds and titles, etc.) from the 1860s that concern the family farm.

Those used to seem really old to me, til I finally saw inside the special collections room on campus, where there is a 15th century copy of Dante's Divine Comedy, and a 14th century Psalter....

 

[LordBest]

The oldest items I have would be these:
Athenian tetradrachm after 449 B.C

Persian Siglos, Xerxes-Ataxerxes period 485-424 B.C.

I'm afraid I can't help but show off my Roman solidus:

Ms Rue, I second the Venus attribution, she seems to be holding an apple which is another important iconographical marker of Venus.

 

[Shangas]

A beautiful Roman coin, my lord. It's so detailed!

 

[rue]

Gorgeous coins Lord Best!
Thank you for the confirmation that it's Venus

 

[Corky]

The oldest objects I own are a few fragments of what I was told are Sauropod fossils from the late Jurassic period.

 

[Tomasso]

Diamonds are probably the most commonly held antiquites, if minerals are included.

 

[Henry Gondorff]

Besides the fossils I own, this is the oldest artefact in my collection: prehistoric stylus, flint stone, Homo Neanderthalensis, about 50 000 BC.

 

[Magister]

Fantastic coins, LordBest.:eusa_clap

 

[Chrissss]

I have a 1932 zippo, ok it's not so old but it's the first year of production, there are perhaps 500 pieces in original conditions without any repair parts all around the world.

 

[Whizz for Atomms]

The oldest thing I own is a bit of Archean Granulite from NW Scotland which I found when I was mapping the area as a student, dated to around 2.7 - 3Ga (billion years).

Not exactly in the spirit of the original question, but I did chip it off the outcrop with a hammer & chisel, so kind of man made...!