What's the oldest thing you own?

[0007776]

I have a few fossils, but the oldest man-made thing that I have is a few Roman coins which I'm not sure exactly how old they are, but probably from some time in the 200s

 

[calculus]

Our house is 100 years old, apart from that it's probably my hair and teeth.

 

[MacBoobsPro]

This begs the question. Do I own my wife?

 

[ErikCLDR]

Well we have this tool chest and tools made by my great great great grandfather. I'd assume thats pretty old. Its amazingly crafted to perfection. I'll take a pic of it.

 

[skunk]

"On the Customs of the Turks" - 1555.

 

[iRachel]

Some newspapers from the early 1900s that various relatives saved.

 

[gkarris]

An Egyptian Ubshabti doll around 1,000 BC..

 

[Sesshi]

My violin. 300 years old when the dot-bombs were incubating.

 

[mireth]

Oldest Thing

I have a Sunbeam MixMaster from 1939 that I still use all the time when baking. I got it 10 years ago from a friend, who got it from her Grandmother. I'm on my 5th Mac, but only my first mixer.

 

[Tanglewood]

The oldest thing that I have that is 'man made' is an 1864 Confederate States of America five dollar bill.

 

[Hummer]

Every piece of matter I own has been around since forever.

 

[sushi]

My wife.

Oh Oh. No ___ for you for a long time!

 

[-::ubermann::-]

if we talk abput man-made things i have a statue of what was a portastandard, and other objects i guess it dates from 1400's, they have been with my family and i ''rescued'' them
ill post a pic

 

[jayb2000]

350 Million Years

I have some geodes, they started forming a very long time ago.

How geodes formed from dolomite is a more complicated matter. Geologist Robert Maliva, formerly of Harvard University and now a consulting hydrogeologist, came up with a theory in 1987, which explains most geode features.

It goes like this: The geode cavity formed in a roundabout way — from a hard little nodule that later dissolved away, leaving a void. The process started about 350 million years ago when limey sediments built up in warm, shallow seas that covered what is now central United States. The salty warm waters seeped through calcite-rich limey sediment; the salt reacted with the calcite (which is an ingredient in limestone, chalk and marble), and transformed the calcite into the minerals: dolomite and anhydrite. That's how dolomite enters the picture.

The anhydrite (related to the gypsum used to make wallboard and plaster) is important, too: it formed hard spherical nodules within the dolomite as the dolomite solidified from sediment into rock. Now, the interesting part. Water that is slightly acidic will dissolve anhydrite. As the water percolating through the dolomite became acidic over time, the acidic, mineral-laden water dissolved the outer edges of the anhydrite nodules and replaced them with small fibrous crystals of quartz. The interiors of the anhydrite nodules also dissolved away, "leaving a spherical void with a rind of the tiny quartz crystals," says Smith. The pre-geode then had its cavity.

Mineral-rich water moving through the rock provided quartz (and other minerals in some cases); the crystals inside the cavity grew inward.

Later, the younger rocks eroded away, and exposed the dolomite, which then largely weathered away. The hard quartz resisted weathering, separated from the dolomite and accumulated on the ground as geodes.

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[DeSnousa]

A necklace given to me by my godmother when I was baptised. It is nearly as old as me and I wear it every day

 

[synth3tik]

I would have to say either my Hitachi Color TV or my ][e. I really don't own anything more then 20 some years old.

 

[latergator116]

I don't really own it, but the house (apartment) I live in was built in 1879.

 

[iAlan]

Like the OP I too have a couple of old fossils













My parents!

 

[ghall]

A bugle from 1918. It still has a great sound.

I've got an 1885 silver dollar that I won in a contest.

That remind me, I think I have one as well. It might be 1895 though, I don't remember.

 

[SkyBell]

Uh... The Beatles White Album? 1960's, I would guess.

Hmm.... Oh I do have a nickel from 1939. (Found in pocket change; I got lucky)

I guess that's it.

 

[Keebler]

Oldest thing I own that I know of?

A Nintendo Entertainment System.

ok...this one made me feel really old.

 

[Mammoth]

The oldest thing I personally own is a 1986 Volvo 240 GL. Maybe some other things.

 

[mariahlullaby]

Hmmm.

A coin from the Roman Empire, books from the 1700 and 1800s, a key collection but they have never been date, a violin that's been in the family for a few generations (maybe 100 years old), and my parents own a lot of antiques.

 

[Sensfan67]

A handmade 140 year old hockey stick.

 

[G5Unit]

My iPod.