My grandmother has some old family stuff in her house that actually survived the storm!
Anyway, the oldest thing of mine in our house is almost certainly that little bag of ancient uncleaned coins of unknown denomination that my Dad got me for xmas one year on a whim. Don’t really know what or when they’re from, but they’re likely pretty old.
A flint arrowhead. Haven’t had it dated, but maybe 4,000 years old?
Oh, forgot - a fossil of a small arthropod. Couple of million years easily.
Both found at the beach.
Ah, just realised that the fossil doesn’t count. The arrowhead does though.
Otherwise I have a 1932 edition of Shakespeare’s complete works and some 19C furniture. Neither is worth anything financially.
The oldest thing I have is an 1880’s printing of the book, The Ingoldsby Legends. Haven’t gotten around to reading it yet, but I will. Before that, it was a book from 1910 called Knight Errant.
I have a couple of bowl fragments from a local location, probably date to 1000 -1200 AD.
a mixer and yes it still works
some coins
some books
my chest of drawers- - which my son is using
my vanity table - - which is in the laundry room
my desk - was my grandfathers
my grandmothers ring - which I am wearing
the silverware - the real stuff that never gets used and has to be polished.
an arrowhead
My grandmother’s breadboard from Sweden. It dates back to the late 1800’s.
I just took it to work to keep in my office, but I have an old Roman coin which dates back to 350CE or so. It’s not worth much but it’s certainly old!
Whut?
I have a few 78 records from 1904. My wife has some family photographs from around the same time. I have a copy of Love’s Labours Lost from about 1900.
I have a trilobite fossil, but you precluded those in the OP, then counted it later in the thread. Incidentally, multicellular life is only about 600-700 million years old on earth*. Trilobites appeared about 550 million years ago.
*Gabrielle Walker has described how brief multicellular life is this way - it you stretch your arms out to represent the 4.5 billion years of earth’s history, multi-celled organisms appear just around your right wrist.
I have a family bible from 1863, some 19th century silver pieces, and a wood letter box from the mid-1800s. I had a lot of 19th century silver coins before I sold off my collection. The house itself was built in 1904.
I just remembered that I was given an antique silver serving spoon from the 1700s for my wedding. It sits in its box and about once a year I take it out to look at it. Perhaps if we had anything else that remotely resembled it, we’d use it. I’m still not sure what to do with it, honestly. It very likely won’t match whatever dinner set we eventually get, but for some reason I’m hesitant to sell it.
My house itself was built in 1849. Hand-forged nails and hand-hewn boards.
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:smack: I completely skipped the line saying it had to be manufactured. The 1818 Bible is my oldest then, I think.
It’s not supposed to match. It’s a conversation piece, just use it!
An 1802 one cent piece.
Nah, I didnt “count” it, just commented that trilobite fossils could be really old. But you are right about the age of trilobites, they first appeared 521 million years ago, per wikipedia.
The oldest thing we have on our shelves (including fossils) is a Song dynasty bowl. It’s nothing fancy, just a plain glazed earthenware bowl that was presumably made for a bureaucrat to eat his lunch out of.
I also have a twisted silver finger ring with a glass stone that dates from around the Siege of Vienna (1529). Likewise, it’s nothing particularly fancy or valuable (except for its age), and was presumably the sort of thing that a soldier would give his best girl as a trinket.
I’ve got a coin found by a sheepherder at an abandoned classical Greek ruin while we were there visiting. It’s worn but there’s a face on one side and a ship with 3 large "X"s on the other.
Also have a pretty extensive arrowhead and stone tool collection. Many of those will be thousands of years old.
We have one, as well. My wife found it on her relatives’ farm in downstate Illinois.
She also has a German book of hymns which is ~200 years old.
And, finally, the house itself is 85 years old. 
A triple-X rated ship? That ship must have seen plenty of ups and downs. 
I have a computer that still runs Windows 98.