What's the oldest thing you own?

[OctaviaTriangle]

For me ... nothing too ancient really

A coin from 1860

A headmasters school log from 1850

A Victorian Bon Bon dish which is about 120 years old

A few other Victorian bits and pieces.

You?

An icon brought from Russia. Christies thought 18th Century but only valued at £700-£900 although that was in about 1990.

I did have a pendant with jet in it, but the jet has disappeared.

Somewhere I have a silver 6d with queen Victoria's head on it.

My dad has several Roman coins he dug up from his back garden.

I don't own anything that old, but I did inherit a statue of the laughing Buddha, made from ivory. It is a very large piece of ivory and I don't know what to do with it. Feel uncomfortable putting it on display (I'm vegetarian), wouldn't sell it as it might contribute to the ivory trade, but it's well over 100 years old and seems wrong to just destroy it. So it sits in my wardrobe where only I see it.

I own some stone age tools. I also have quite a few fossils and meteorites.

A black velvet blazer that my mum bought and wore in the sixties.

My flat-built in the 1930s

My engagement ring is about 100 years old. It’s utterly beautiful in its own right, but the history made me love it even more 😍

My house - c. 1890

Before I opened this thread, my first thought was that I have a few pairs of knickers that are well over a decade old.
I see now you’ve all gone much more highbrow

@WhyOhWhyOhWhyyyy

Same! I only replace underwear and socks if they really are no longer usable.

@SingingSands Sounds lovely. Black blazers never go out of style. I hope you or someone else in your family still wears it. Good on you for flying in the face of fast fashion!

A silk christening gown that was first worn in the 1820s and a lace shawl from the 1890s. I wore the shawl at my own wedding.

My Great Grandma's Girl Guiding badges from the 1920s.
I'm not counting the DCs' rock/ fossil collections.

I once found a flint arrowhead in DM's garden when I was a child.

A first edition book from 1857. Feels like a real treasure to me.

Should have added that both were from my grandmother's side of the family.

I have a very tattered book of poetry dated 1892. I can't remember where it came from.

But my DS has quite a collection of fossils and rocks, some of which are hundreds of millions of years old.

Nothing much, a Victorian bowl recently broke. So, possibly some jewellery from the 1970s.

In daily use: my gran's wedding cutlery (stainless steel), 1937. It's a bit big but perfect for cooking (large tablespoons, very pointy forks).
Otherwise (and not counting fossils): Heirloom textiles (tablecloths, embroidery etc) more than 150 years old. My husband has some 19th century books too.
Neolithic polished stone axe, about 6000 years old. Some Roman and Medieval pottery...

We recently cleared out my mum's loft and I acquired two little chests of drawers which my grandad (who I never met) made for my mum to keep her dolls clothes in the mid 1940s.

They are just the right size to store my icing nozzles and food colourings so are now being happily repurposed.

I have a bible from when I started high school in 1964 and also a teddy that my fiancé bought me the Christmas before we were married , so he will be 50 this year. He's called Emlyn after Emlyn Hughes the Liverpool footballer .

Probably a large pottery pot inherited from my grandmother and I'm sure it was an heirloom for her. Apparently it was used for jugging hares.

A beautiful gold guilded book from 1820

I've got a Top Shop t shirt that I bought before 1989 (I know this because I bought it when I worked v close to the Oxford Street store and I left that job in 1989). I wear it to Zumba. No holes and the seams are still straight!

Other than some fossils and pretty stones I think the oldest thing is probably my papier mache tea caddy.

I also have my grandma's piano (no clue how old it is but she had it before my mum was born and my mum is 78)
Oh, and a pair of opera glasses.

(In other news I was suprised to realise the other day that our freezer is at least 30 years old and still going strong.

My 1829 built house.

Genuine Viking brooch