Sadly, unless the work on it was done 300 million years ago, I don’t think it counts.
My great-grandfather’s trunk, bought when he left for medical school: late 1880s.
There’s some other old items at my mother’s, including some furniture which I know to be 19th century but not a date, some that she says is 18th century, and some books which are also 19th century (including a multi-volume Universal History which jumps from Genesis to the ancient Egyptians).
Stuff my aunt inherited from the same source as the items above (my paternal grandma) include some trays that are 17th and 18th century, some furniture whose age we don’t know but which came from the “stronghouse” (think a very small manor with very thick walls, large enough to house every villager and keep them fed for a month - it also housed the village’s grain stores) and a Baroque St Benedict which used to preside its chapel.
Only about 200 million years after Earth was formed, a shower of meteorites hit that are responsible for all the gold found in the planet’s mantle, what’s in your jewlry, electronics, coins, etc.
But like SciFiSam says, that hardly fits the description in the manmade OP.
:smack::smack::smack:
So the dinosaur tooth I mention upthread doesn’t remotely count, unless the acrylic it’s encased in is also 65 million years old. Sigh.
So - yeah; a Roman coin, some 150-year-old books, Japanese prints, etc. I have an ~85-year-old guitar that I use regularly and plays like a dream, and other cool old stuff - having antique-dealer parents will do that…
It’s a toss-up between a poi pounder I found in an abandoned house when I was a kid (it was being used to prop open a sagging door) and a stone skinning tool my wife found in the remains of a barabara (aleut sod house) on Kodiak Island.
Oh, yes. She was the one who was ordained by the Indepenent Free Thought Bible Spiritualistic Society of San Franciscoin 1895. She may have had the pestles (and the mortars that went with them) before that, but it probably wouldn’t have been too long before. It would depend on whether she was working as an herbalist before or after she went into magnetic therapy.