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In reply to the discussion: Other than land, what's the oldest physical object that you own? [View all]True Dough
(26,084 posts)93. Maybe so.
I must have been thinking about legumes and nuts Permanut, even.
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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
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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.
Aristus
Thursday
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