Old nik-naks / antiques

[wizzzard]

I saw a program about antiques the other day ( no idea which one ) and it got me thinking that I don't own anything that could be considered old.

I think the oldest thing I posses is one of my bikes and thats still early 80's.

Are our houses these days just filled with modern tat or do some BCFers have antique swords hanging from their walls and 18th century clocks sitting on their mantlepieces ?

What's the oldest thing you own?
( I dont mean that favourite pair of boxer shorts you've had for the last twenty year with only one hole in them and very light staining either )
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[nowhere.elysium]

I own a really old mini-lathe, which I bought from a market stall in Saffron Walden. The guy selling it didn't know what it was, so I got it for a couple of quid.
I've also got some medals from my great uncle, who was in WW2, and I have some old shilling coins somewhere, too.

Other than that, I'm starting to collect old computers.
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[Ariel Badger]

I thought this thread was about me
I do own old stuff other than bikes, I collect Things associated with the Ariel factory and biking in general as well as some bits of Spitfire and lots of old sparking plugs ( some 200 going back to the 1st WW). Oldest thing I own is a coprolite ( dinosaur poo) fossil.
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[andyscooter]

oldest thing i own
is a second world war bayonet

[yen_powell]

I've got a home guard handbook. I now know how to firebomb a German tank proceeding down Hastings high street.
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[Dragonfly]

1800's jade wedgewood jasper coffee pot
1888 Russian tea urn smuggled by my grandmother from Russia back in the day. ( I have several of them)
1901 slide of the place where I live I just bought off ebay
assorted coins from 1917 upwards.
My piano is 1920's art deco design by Beaumont and co, London.

1960s baccus plates,cup and saucers and other assorted funnky 60s things. Rotary phone.

several old paintings I picked up in markets.
Some old silver, trays teapots etc and brass. Nice candlelabres I got off ebay and willy winkle candle holders.

I have Russian olympics coins and a cutlery set collectors things, really nice my gran gave them to me before she died.

Old newspapers from trhe troubles with my family on front pages protesting . Thank god there isnt one where I was at the very front, its lost.
Bottles from a local place dated 1900's and older medicin ones I found, old sweet tins.

Actually I dont have any new stuff in my house just old

Carved knights with gargols and some wooden carved medivil setting in the hall way. I have no idea how old they are but they are old as my parents collected antiques and just left them for me as it didnt fit the decore. They are cool looking. Also some coat of arms things with real small swords going through them. Can be used as letter openers or as defence if someone breaks in as they are beside my bedroom.

I have some old books.

A table in my hall is quite old, I have it nailed together as it fell apart on me but its something from the 1800's.

Actually I live in a junk yard

There is some new stuff about somewhere.
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[Ariel Badger]

Sounds like my place DF, I have a 1938 Rudge lady's pushbike in the kitchen and WW2 Petrol rationing coupons in my wallet (Just in case).
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[Tonka]

wandered about my ickle pile and I think nearly all my furniture is old. Most of it is circa 1800 and a few bits were from a local stately house (servants quarters, nothing posh!) when it was sold off, so I like it's local provenance. My family consider it to be firewood in the making, but I don't seem to be able to 'get' modern furniture unless it's well wierd and funky. I seem to be one extreme or the other (more ways than furniture choice )

I wanted a new sofa but didn't really want a brand new one, but I've bitten the bullet and ordered one that'll last for years and age well. In fact I think apart from electronic stuff the only thing that I have to have brand new is my bed - a second hand mattress holds no appeal for me

There is something lovely and nostalgic about looking at a old things and wondering what they've seen and heard - bit like looking in the mirror
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[garth]

Got a bayonet here, french, engraved 1879. It's cool. I want to stab people with it.
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[The Original Muzza]

Couple of seriously old Claymores. They're my brother's now, as he inherited them from my dad being the oldest son. I am jealous. They're a good 300 years old and worth a large sum of cash, though I doubt anyone would sell them.
Just hope my brother dies before having children and I get them
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[Stelmer]

I have:

Loads of Shelliac 78RPM records which still play fine.

Vinyl records from the 50's on.

1950's salvaged and working 5 foot 80w Bayonett (B22d) capped fluorescent tube. Designed to work on Mercury streetlight gear of the time.

Plenty of old tools.

1968 Highway code book which makes interesting reading!!!

A SNES.

A Sega Megadrive with light gun.

A Spectrum Sinclair ZX.

Old digital mobile phones from the mid 90's.

Loads more tat that I cannot be bothered to dig out...

I did have:

A betamax video recorder (sold)
Top loading VCR (Broke, sold)
Old streetlights (Sold)
More old lightbulbs (Sold)

[Fisty]

I possibly win for the oldest man made article.

This is a neolithic serrated flint, roughly from 8000bc. I found it at a confirmed neolithic site in derbyshire.
https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn82/mr_fisty/DSC00940.jpg

And this is one of my older fossils, found on charmouth beach. Its the jaw of an Ichthyosaur and is roughly 180,000,000 years old!

https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn82/mr_fisty/DSC00615.jpg

I likes old stuff me.
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[Fisty]

[trevoriv]

I've got some old Nik Naks in the cupboard, some Pringles and Jaffa Cakes as well that have probably gone past their best before date.
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[Handsome]

Old Silver pocket watches from middle 1800s I think they are, they came from both Grandads, also some old silver knecklaces and charms that belonged to my Nan, they're knocking about somewhere, a few old coins and a few book from just before the turn of the 1900s...

Probably got some other stuff knocking about aswell...

Wouldn't mind a mooch through Drangonflys house though, sounds like some really nice things there DF...
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[Dr. DaveJPS]

some old coins (as i dabbled in collecting for a while), some old bullets and....

https://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt180/DaveJPS/monkeyrebuild190909001.jpg?t=1250718592

my great grandads cavalry sabre from the Boer war
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[yen_powell]