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Now go to the museum and have Blathers assess it.
An old brass model train from the 60s. We don't have an exact date, but that what I've been told.
Someone converted it to DCC at some point, but otherwise original.
nothing really. I stopped being a sentimentalist/collector/hoarder years ago, I've packed up my life into cardboard boxes and moved all over the world more than 35 times in my life and I've just got no energy left to drag around old things with me everywhere I go.
I’ve got a ammo box and a plane made out of bullet casing’s from World War 2 that used to belong to my grandfather.
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Compaq portable plus luggable PC
Need to redo the foam and foil keys but otherwise it works great, let out the magic smoke the first time i powered it up so i did a re-cap and now it starts fine.
And it even has a working hard drive!
I also have an IBM Lexmark model M keyboard I use as my daily driver
I have a couple of Griswold cast iron skillets - an “8” and a “10”. I just looked up their particular vintage and they are both from 1930-1939, so 83 to 93 years old. Im confident that those are the oldest things I have that I use regularly and they are probably the oldest things I own.
Like the think that I have owned the longest? Or the thing that was made the longest ago?
If it's the thing that I've owned the longest, my cartridge of Mega Man X, which I have owned since about 1995 or 1996.
If it's the thing that was made the longest ago, my wife's sewing kit that she inherited from her aunt, which was probably made in the 1970s.
My wife collects mechanical wristwatches. But since we aren't millionaires, she buys them in bulk lots online. Most times she'll get an interesting or semi-valuable watch or two. Usually broken or damaged in some way, but often within her ability to repair.
So. One day her watch haul included a double hunter pocketwatch whose maker's mark we weren't familiar with - "JW Benson". And inside the case was the text "Watchmaker by warrants to the Queen and the Prince of Wales."
Between those two, we managed to deduce that it had been manufactured sometime around 1880 (+/- a couple years. The company was bombed in WWII and a lot of records burned. IIRC, we had narrowed it to like a five year span, but the exact dates couldn't be determined beyond that)
Anyway. That watch - which still runs - is probably the oldest thing.
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My grandfather's axe. He got it as a gift from his father, 90 years ago, but it was already in use then.
And no, he didn't replace the head twice and the handle 5 times.
Trigger?
My house was built in '53
Great-grandfathers watch. It doesn't run anymore but I still love to keep it.
I don't know if you've looked into it or not, but you might be surprised at how cheap some watch repairs are.
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Some volcanic rocks from mt St Helens
My house. Just the house.
That i can think of, a pre-1937 hand tool. Pre Stanley brand brace hand drill, recent purchase, dirt cheap compared to new, and only needed a quick clean.
My parents ashes in my basement. My dad was born in ‘32
Some sea snail fossils probably
I have a top loader NES and two games I bought for it.
1960s Wurlitzer electronic piano.
Ive got a Magnavox Odyssey
A Dunn & Co. boater hat from ~1890 with a blue and white striped band.
F-70 "patent applied for" 3/8 Snap-On ratcheting wrench from 1933, still works. I know I have older tools but I haven't or couldn't date them.
I do have older coins, but the wrench is cooler.
A Sheaffer Balance fountain pen that I bought and restored, I believe it's from somewhere around 1934. A few fountain pens that are certainly old but of unknown date as well.
Runner up would be my house built in the early 50's.
A 1960 Deutz D15 tractor from my grandfather.
A camcorder from 2002. Imagine 00's skateboarding clips!
Gilette Fat Boy razor.