Whatcha Got That’s Old?

[Firpo]

Thought this might be kind of fun. So what’s the oldest thing you own? I know we all collect different things and I think it would be interesting to see who has the oldest item here on OSA. Doesn’t matter what it is, could be a coin, knife, gun or fishing pole. For me it’s this Clark & Hall Warranted straight razor that from my research was made in England circa 1798. To put that in perspective also in 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte wins the Battle of the Pyramids and Admiral Horatio Nelson decimates the French Fleet

 

[xseler]

I own this rock that claims to be almost 2 billion years old. He hates to be photographed, though...........

 

[RickN]

Wife is 74.

 

[Okie4570]

One of the chests that my great great great grand parents used when traveling their way from Bratislava, CZ to the US in the 1840's. Not exactly sure on the exact date of the chest but have been told late 1700's by a couple of different folks. I'll have to take some pics.

 

[Mr.Glock]

My ass.

 

[Bocephus123]

My ass.

No pics please

 

[wawazat]

Ive got this 1966 Zippo which was in my hip pocket almost my entire 20s only to be retired to the safe when I quit smoking. Snoopy has some great words of advice when I was taking a smoke break haha.

 

[TerryMiller]

No real idea as to the age of these items as two of them were picked up off of an old battlefield. (At least, supposedly from an old battle field.) A friend and I had taken a 3-day pass from our base in Pakistan and went up to Kabul, Afghanistan. We were fortunate that we could stay with other Army personnel that were stationed to the embassy there.

The local Afghans would go out and pick up old weapons from past battles and "rebuild" them to sell. A number of our fellow soldiers had come back from Kabul with full length cap and ball muskets. I stumbled upon this "carbine-style" cap and ball rifle and sword, which were both supposed to have been rescued from the earth. I imagine the rifle has a new stock, and perhaps the same for the saber's scabbard. The shield is a modern knock-off because the ones taken from the battlefields were in really bad shape, although one with dents from sabers might have been neat.

As soon as we got back to the home of the GI we were staying with, he took the weapon and pulled out the ramrod and stuck it down the barrel. It seems that in the past, some of the embassy GI's would put on a cap and "fire-off" the weapons, and one guy allowed his child to shoot the cap and ball pistol. Only that time, the ball in the weapon had been dislodged enough to actually fire the ball out. The GI supposedly got the ball in his shoulder.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

I don't know if it's the oldest thing I have...I'll have to think on that. But I have this really nice Trenton anvil that was made in 1899. For some reason I have a thing for anvils...they fascinate me. I don't use them for blacksmithing...just like to look at them and imagine what's been made on them.

This one is 166 pounds and and I bought it in Bonner's Ferry, ID while on a solo bike trip. It rode behind me on my Road King all the way back to Lewiston.

 

[adamsredlines]

I'm guessing this oreodont fossil
"Went extinct between about 40 million and 5.3 million years ago"