What is the oldest thing you own?
 

mine is a pocket knife which belonged to my grandfather, i'll try to get a picture of it up here soon.

Hmmm... I'm not 100% sure, but the oldest I can think of is our set of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911 edition).

you mean the object's intrinsic age, or how long you've had it personally?

I have a chinese blue ware plate from around 1900

We have a rocking chair and a set of silverware (the truly silver kind) from Mr. Clod's grandmother. No idea how old they really are, but we know for sure the rocking chair is over 100 years old because her mother nursed her in it, and she was 100 when she died last year.

Our house I think...

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1780 or 1825, depending on the source.
Just got rid of that lovely railroad tie "flower bed" and spread 1" river rocks over the driveway.

Several fossils.

Well. I think the oldest thing I personally own, is a stool my grandad made for Nan out of pieces of crate and some little table legs he'd got hold of from somewhere. It was when they were first married, so that would be round about the late
20's/early 30's I think.

my paternal grandfathers wedding ring (which doesn't even fit on my pinkie!)
circa mid 1930s

interesting question, Rexmons!

some charter thing about the land where i live, from like early 17/18th century, not really sure

Used to be land.

As far as stuff, I have few antiques... I'll have to look.
Probably my small Tibetan prayer bowl. It is very old.

jinx - what is the date of the old photograph?

I have a piece of granite.

I used to have a samurai sword... but I still think my bowl is older.

I don't know. The prev. owners just gave me a xerox copy, didn't have much info.

A small piece of rock from the sky, just about as old as the solar system itself.