Old Things.

[stewey]

Apart from yourself, what is the oldest thing that you have in your home? Mine would be a treadle-style sewing machine which I am dating at 1869. It could be quite a few years older than that because in 1869 the company made a slight change to the design of the treadle, and mind doesn't have that change. Anyway, it's at least 144 years old. I have some really, really old coins; however, I'm not counting those as they don't have any "use".

[Zacs-Master]

Mrs Zacs

[Stephen_G]

Mum - 1934!

[mccfluff]

my home itself is quite old.

[stewey]

Zacs and Stephen, how very dare you refer to your relatives as "things":)

[Frank97]

Apart from some Roman coins or some rocks/minerals, probably the house itself, 1872.

[nungate]

Apart from my husband .... some Victorian jewellery and some china

[Tilly2]

My grandmother's engagement ring. 1926

[Traci66]

The original fire grates in the bedrooms, the house is approx three hundred years old.

[frugalfred]

A fossil ammonite from the Jurassic oolitic limestone.

[gness]

I have a couple of uniform buttons dated 17??...I dug them up in my garden.
An ancient Singer hand machine and some very old printing and darning devices...no idea of the dates though......Oh and a few million rocks and fossils the geologist hasn't yet found room for in her house....Yeah?!

[Tilly2]

Oh, I've got some fossils. I forgot about those. My Dad found them down the pit. They are fantastic.

[murraymints]

My great granny' s wedding ring ..must be 150 + years old...

[Old_Geezer]

That is true, like Frank I have some Roman coins somewhere. Bought them off e-Bay on a whim, never cleaned them up because they looked far more fragile than the e-Bay photo showed ! Unsure where I put them now.

Occassionally think I'd like to get some ammonite fossils for the mantlepiece, but never got around to it.

[stewey]

Traci66, if only those old fire grates could talk; what a few stories they could tell:)

[quinie]

An old-fashioned glass cream jug and sugar bowl.My granny was born in 1866 and the set belonged to her granny so it must be pretty old. Apparently when a minister baptised a baby in the house the sugar basin was used to hold the water. I still regret selling the grandfather clock I inherited-it was passed down the female line-think it was dated circa 1795

[EcclesCake]

Apart from fossils and Stone Age implements the oldest items I can think of is crockery dating from 1781.

I'm sure there's other stuff but the crockery is in regular use.

[stewey]

Any markings on that set, quinie, which might enable you to narrow down its age? Being a bit of an amateur horologist, I would love to have "liberated" that clock from you.

[Traci66]

We have three old clocks too, don't know exact dates but pre 1900, and I think I'm glad the fire grates can't talk!

[sandyRoe]

Two items which are old and one that is ancient. both the old things are probably from the Victorian era. The first is a solid brass bunsen burner and the second is a smoothing iron. The ancient item is a knapped fling blade which I discovered was still sharp when I cut a finger on it. It was in a bag of topsoil I had delivered for the garden.

[shoota]

Apart from a handful of fossils which are reasonably old I have a painting by a chap who died in 1684, it's believed to come from c.1630.