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Jan 11, 2023 at 08:33 PM
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The oldest thing I own is a wooden "jesus fish statue" from the 70s--it's a wooden statue of a fish with the words of Jesus on it, the "IXOYE". My grandma gave it to me.
The second oldest is a cross necklace emblem from my great grandma...not sure how old it is, at least 40+ years old. What is the oldest thing you own? |
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Jan 11, 2023 at 08:44 PM
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Probably my baby bracelet from the hospital when i was born, made of beads, with my last name and my mother's initial. Eta - 70 and 11/12 years old!
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Jan 11, 2023 at 09:01 PM
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A Curious George doll that my grandma and grandpa gave me for Christmas when I was 5 years old.
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Jan 11, 2023 at 09:07 PM
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A silver dollar that my grandpa gave me when I was born
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Jan 11, 2023 at 09:31 PM
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Somewhere in the stuff I brought from Mom's house are my first pair of baby shoes and the bracelet from my wrist in the hospital when I was born.
The oldest think I have with personal meaning to me is my stuffed kitty I got when I was an Itty bitty. I rediscovered him buried in a shed yesterday. He is squished and ragged looking. I tossed him on the trash pile yesterday. I regained my senses today and will rescue him tomorrow. |
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Jan 11, 2023 at 09:58 PM
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Jan 11, 2023 at 11:51 PM
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A jacket that my mother wore when she was a teenager!
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Jan 12, 2023 at 12:36 AM
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A few low value coins from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Would love to buy an old Roman coin [many of which are apparently not prohibitively expensive] but there are unfortunately a lot of fakes out there. Would love to hold something that old in my hands. Somehow therapeutic I think it might be. I'd like to own a verified piece of a meterorite as well. Again...unfortunately, many fakes. Perhaps I'll look into it anyway. Due diligence and all.
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Jan 12, 2023 at 08:37 AM
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Lark, that's amazing you saved your monkey and backpack from both fires!
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Jan 12, 2023 at 10:07 AM
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The oldest thing I own (great question btw, LL!) is a stunning black velvet tunic length (but fitted, it's about a size 6) jacket with a hot pink silk lining and beadwork that runs along the length of the zipper in front. I can't exactly recall, but I don't think the zipper still works. My father gave it to my mother when they were first married in 1944. I used to wear it when I was in high school. The silk is tearing/disintegrating a bit, though.
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Jan 12, 2023 at 10:09 AM
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Jan 12, 2023 at 03:11 PM
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My birth certificate probably.
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Jan 12, 2023 at 03:57 PM
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Jan 12, 2023 at 03:59 PM
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I guess if it is just me (not my husband and me, together), it's a wooden chest that an appraiser said dates to likely 1720. From my mother's side of the family. If my husband and me together, we have a Czech coin dating back to the 1300s that we bought in the town of Kutna Hora. It's not very valuable, as one might think. I think we bought it at a museum there for around the equivalent of $15, maybe 25 years ago, or so.
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Jan 13, 2023 at 11:36 AM
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Love this topic and replies.
Personal object which is oldest is probably my old threadbare Teddy bear who was a cousin’s before mine and must be around 60 years old. Joint oldest object is the sole from a Roman sandal- not sure how old but at least over 1,500 years which sounds weird writing it out. Lots of Roman digs locally and so things like these aren’t too uncommon. Husband was given this by a friend working on a dig in the 80s I think, stuff like this was preserved by the mud. |
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Jan 13, 2023 at 01:34 PM
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Some family jewellery that I inherited from my grandmother, easily 150+ years old.
Second oldest, 2 embroideries I did when I was about 10 or 11. I keep them because they remind me of my Mom. I remember sitting beside her in her craft room embroidering, before she got sick. __________________  "I danced in the morning when the world was begun. I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun". From my favourite hymn. "If you see the wonder in a fairy tale, you can take the future even if you fail." Abba 
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Jan 13, 2023 at 03:34 PM
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I have a chunk of lava rock which I took from NM when I lived there 20 yrs ago.
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Jan 14, 2023 at 03:20 PM
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Well... I'm tempted to say the oldest thing I own is myself!
 But, no, the oldest thing I own is perhaps an oil painting my grandmother would have painted in the early 1900's. I can recall my mother once saying she recalled sitting in her highchair, as a very young child, watching her mother paint it. 
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Jan 14, 2023 at 07:48 PM
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Stuffed animal (dog) as old as me.
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Jan 15, 2023 at 07:29 PM
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My great-grandfather was supposed to marry a woman who he wound up rejecting for the woman who became my great-grandmother. She made a tiny wedding dress from the gown she planned to wear and made a doll to fit it. I have that doll with the dress. It's about 115 years old and is very fragile. Someday it will go to one of my nieces.
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