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In reply to the discussion: Other than land, what's the oldest physical object that you own? [View all]applegrove
(131,036 posts)79. Yes. She fought to make it to 100. Then being blind
and deaf but otherwise with it she fought to die. She refused food. She died at 103. She was my hero growing up. So warm. She told stories in the old oral tradition. She worked her *** off her whole life ( she raised 5 younger sisters of which she was the oldest, ran a farm, was a nurse, ran a nursing home, was an outport nurse, country doctor's wife, live in caregiver, etc..) and retired at 82. But yeah. I think my older brother informed her she would soon have been alive in three different centuries when she was 100.
I once asked her in the 1980s what she thought of communism. She said she was 19 when communism started and she wasn't afraid of them. But she was afraid of the AMERICANS!!!! Typical Nova Scotia. LOL!
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I have a quartersawn all oak 1890 sidetable from England I got at an auction 50 years ago for $100
lark
Tuesday
#3
My great grandmother's wedding dress from 1895. It's black, covered with jet beads, and comes from
Scrivener7
Tuesday
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I REALLY hope it was an eagle ($10 gold coin) and not a double eagle ($20 gold coin)
DFW
Wednesday
#63
A violin made in Tartu (Estonia) in 1938. I always wondered how the liutiere had the
fierywoman
Tuesday
#31
Not the oldest, but maybe the most interesting, my mother's ration stamps from WWII.
CrispyQ
Tuesday
#33
Some fossil trilobites from Morocco and 200 million year old petrified logs from Indonesia and Zimbabwe
DFW
Wednesday
#65
Small pewter plates that the Culpeper, VA, antique shop swore are from the 1700s.
greatauntoftriplets
Wednesday
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An 1873 Indian Head penny I found in an old MI parks while metal detecting back around 1980. nt
yaesu
Wednesday
#89
I have an operatic score in book form that belonged to my great-great grandfather.
LudwigPastorius
Thursday
#96
A first edition of popular farm ballads, with lyrics and sheet music, dating from 1882.
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Thursday
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