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“What’s The Oldest Item Or Piece Of Furniture In Your House”: 35 Oldest Items Shared By Our Community
Old things are very intriguing. They have a certain aura of mystery, a patina of history, and usually, an interesting story.
Without you even knowing what it is, there's certainly an old piece of furniture or an item lying around your house. It'd be fun to see what kind of antique curiosities you may find in your home, and I'd be happy to see it!
Share it, rate it, discuss it. Let's see who will have the oldest and the most interesting object at home in the Bored Panda community!
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#1
This Trunk That Came Through Elis Island With My Great, Great Grandparents
Final score:
129points
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#2
I Am The Oldest Thing In My House
Final score:
113points
#3
The Beams In Our Ceiling That Have Bern In Place Since Around 1650
Final score:
111points
#4
This Gramophone I Got From My Grandma. I Don't Know How Old It Is. It's Still Working Though
Final score:
104points
#5
Fully-Functioning 1914 National Cash Register. 1914 Is The Last Year They Used Brass Due To WWI
Final score:
102points
#6
This Little Trilobite - Approx. 500 Million Years Old
Final score:
102points
#7
Grandfather Clock From 1680s
Final score:
97points
phanmo (Submission author) 3 years ago (edited)
This clock was bought by one of my ancestors in London in the 1680s, survived a fire, crossed the Atlantic to Canada in the early 1900s, and crossed back last year to my home in France. It still works😁
#8
1907 Crawford Cast Iron Stove I Finished Restoring Just This Week.
Final score:
97points
#10
Old Family Bibles From The 1820s And My Great, Great Grandparents Civil War Daguerreotypes
Final score:
83points
#11
A Roman Amphora Made 400 Years Before Jesus Was Born
Final score:
83points
Jette Wang Wahnon 3 years ago
Wine jar,Mediterranian...Jacques Cousteau once found some when diving that still contained wine. They opened it and drank a glass of Nectar from the Gods....a few minutes later it had turned into a vinegar-ish liquid due to the contact with the air..
#12
I Think I Might Take The Cake On This One, No Bragging Intended. This Piece Of The Muoniomalusta Meteorite Is Part Of The Oldest Iron Meteorites Known
It's thought to be a piece of an ancient proto-planet likely older than the earth. It's just about the oldest thing you can touch. The pic is right after I had it certified, but now it sits in a moisture controlled glass container in my house.
Final score:
79points
Gandalf the Pink (Submission author) 3 years ago
I didn't know it was the title I was writing, I thought it was the description 😂
#13
A Roman Denarius Of The Republic, Over 2000 Years Old
Final score:
76points
ADHORTATOR (Submission author) 3 years ago (edited)
I made a pendant for my wife, she is a teacher - Latin, of course :-)
#14
My Grandfather's Pocket Watch. Given To Him By His Father As A Graduation Present In 1918. Manufactured By The Waltham American Watch Company In 1887
Final score:
69points
Pedro 3 years ago
"So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."
#15
This Photo Of My Great-Grandparents
Final score:
68points
#16
My Estate Desk. It's Roughly The Same Age As The Declaration Of Independence (Handles Unfortunately Not Original)
Final score:
68points
StrangeLittleThing 3 years ago
My nanna has one very simalar to this! She has slightly different handles though
Joey Sanchez 3 years ago
What would make it even cooler is if the declaration was written on it... it was written on a different looking desk.
#17
1960s-1970s - My Mum's Well-Travelled Make-Up And Wig Cases. In A Band With My Dad, The Four Ways Bumper Sticker Was From Their Fan Club. Bottom Pic Shows The Cool Baggage Tags And Stickers From Japan Air Lines, China Airlines, Cp Air, Qantas, And Pan Am (Top Black And White Stub With Bs). And Pows Were, Of Course, Prisoners Of War (Vietnam).
Final score:
66points
#18
This Quilt Was A Wedding Gift To My Great-Great-Great-Grandparents In 1847.
Final score:
63points
Jette Wang Wahnon 3 years ago
America has such a long history making quilts...waste not,want not and snippets from worn-out garments and such were turned into something wonderful...and useful..
#19
My Great Grandmother's Engagement Ring. Circa 1912 I Believe
Final score:
60points
StrangeLittleThing 3 years ago
Very pretty! I like the mix between simplicity and not simplicity I don't know the word for it though!
#20
Round Oak Dining Table C. 1890
Final score:
56points
M O'Connell (Submission author) 3 years ago
Normally I give people crap for refinishing antique furniture, but my grandmother bought this at the Salvation Army in 1960 and refinished it then. It suffered some water damage in storage, so I refinished it again, this time in blue, because why not.
#21
My Greek Bronze Spear, Ca. 1000-700 Bc.
Final score:
56points
#22
Some Old But Not Gold Items We Have At Home ---> Large Fossil I Found In France As A Kid + Indus Valley Bowl Approx. 2800-2600 Bc / Mehrgar Periode Vii Pakistan / Dutch Pommegranate-Tile Approx. 1625
Final score:
56points
Jette Wang Wahnon 3 years ago
Don´t be so modest ! some of these items are truly magnificent...
#23
Pocket Binoculars My Grand-Grand-Mother Used To Watch Horse Races In Vincennes Hippodrome
Final score:
55points
Firstname Lastname 2 years ago
We have a pair of those too, but instead of horses, we just use them when we get stumped at Where's Waldo.
#24
Our Whole House Is Old, But We Have A Penny Stuck In The Floor. No Idea How It Got Stuck. As Far As We Know It’s Original To The House From The 1930s
Final score:
53points
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
It probably was welded to the top of a nail. This was a popular prank back then when a penny had the purchasing power of about 20¢ today. Just enough to make someone bend down to pick it up.
#25
A 1977 Binatone Pong Games Console. One Of The First Home Consoles
Final score:
52points
#26
The Clock My Grandfather Got For His Parents When He Was A Teen
Final score:
50points
Lauren Caswell (Submission author) 3 years ago
It plays the "Westminster Quarters" chimes :) it still works but I have stopped using it until I can get the hinge of the glass cover fixed, and the wood retouched. (Flax mat is from my second foray into flax weaving from my garden, I gave the first one away as customary)
#27
My Favourite African Sculpture (Headrest) End 19th Cent.bought By My Grandfather In 1904.from Angola
Final score:
49points
BuiZerd van der Valk 3 years ago
Great piece. I do have African headrests as well in my collection of tribal art.
#28
Chest Of Drawers, Late Xix Century
Final score:
47points
Giovanna (Submission author) 3 years ago (edited)
A friend of mine was throwing it away. It was in terrible conditions. I've had it restored and it now proudly sits in my living room!
#29
Old School Crayon Box. Not Sure Of The Age But Found In My Husband's Grandma's House
Final score:
46points
#30
Nothing In My House Is New....self Included..
Final score:
44points
#31
My Most Prized Possession! And Old One Pence Piece From 1917! (And Yes I Added A Picture Of The Other Side So You Would Know It Was Real)
Final score:
44points
Jette Wang Wahnon 3 years ago
The Saying goes.....A Penny For Your Thoughts....that is worth something ...
#32
I Am An Awful Judge Of What Is Old Or Not, But Its Gotta Be This Trunk That My Grandma Gave Me. She Claims Its From My Great-Great-Grandmother.
Final score:
44points
_Thirteen13_ (Submission author) 3 years ago
Dont get me wrong- i have fossils and such too, but i just felt like posting this one :3
#33
My House Itself! My House Is Over 200 Years And Was An Old Factory Building In The 1840’s. There’s Still The Presence Of One Of The Workers In The Basement.
Final score:
41points
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What do you think ?
Must Be Bored Again 3 years ago
I have always been a sentimental collector and the family historian and my husband was exactly the same in his family. We had so many items tied to deep family memories and traditions. He passed a few years ago but I couldn't get rid of anything of his. Lost EVERYTHING except the clothes on my back in September 2020 forest fires. So many incredible, beautiful items that are only intact in my mind. Treasure your items of living history, they are incredibly precious.
Incitatus 3 years ago
My oldest item is a 3rd century AD bronze brooch in the shape of a swastika, which was good luck for the Ronans back then.
CowboyHank 3 years ago
Some Eastern religions still use the swastika. It was never meant to be a bad symbol. It's actually supposed to represent good luck and prosperity.
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UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
I’m jealous of people with a connection to some piece of history. I only have a few items dating back to early childhood (70s) and some letters my parents sent to each other when dating (late 60s).
Candi Cabaniss 2 years ago
I have my grandmother's sewing machine. She made her wedding dress on it. One of my todo project is getting it working.
Kira Okah 3 years ago
A stone made of fossilised shells in a little display box - my grandpa gave it to me from when he lived on the Isle of Wight when I was about six. Came from a gift shop in Sandown, where there are loads of dinosaur age fossils. Definitely real fossil. If you're meaning manmade, a jade hat decoration, believe it is Chinese and somewhere around the 17th/18th century, passed down the family and got used as a necklace a lot.
Xander Vrieswijk 2 years ago
My oldest item is the male side of the family their family weapon, carved in wood or on a ring, both from around the year 1300
Amy Stone-Chandler 2 years ago
I have ALOT of collectibles. Some pretty serious stuff. Have to keep it all packed up till my 2 ferrets pass away. Either that or I should start selling items. I have stamps over 100 years old too
deanna woods 2 years ago
The oldest thing in my house is my chest of drawers. It was in my sister's and my bedroom when we were kids and it's been with me since she moved out at twenty. I also have my teddy bear, Beary, that has been with me since I was six years old.
SweMilkiWae 2 years ago
We found 3 books from the 1880s to 1918s (i think they were Some sort of bibles) and a few letters in old swedish cursive from around the same years, we still have them and they are sooo amazing. (really Hard to read the letters though, as they are old swedish and cursive afterall. Swedish cursive back then was really Hard to read as a lot of letter just kind of melted into eachother 😅)
Rick Seiden 2 years ago
There's a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Buffalo, NY where there are large stones built into the fireplace (I think) that have genuine fossils in them. I think they are troglobites. and have to be tens if not 100s of millions of years old.
Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago
our house is a mid century time warp so most everything is 1940s-1970s but we have some very old books and other things like enamelware from the 19th century. I am a vintage seller and run estate sales so come in contact with some cool stuff here and there.
Brachial Artery 3 years ago
Hey I want to know more about "the presence of worker in the basement"
Must Be Bored Again 3 years ago
I have always been a sentimental collector and the family historian and my husband was exactly the same in his family. We had so many items tied to deep family memories and traditions. He passed a few years ago but I couldn't get rid of anything of his. Lost EVERYTHING except the clothes on my back in September 2020 forest fires. So many incredible, beautiful items that are only intact in my mind. Treasure your items of living history, they are incredibly precious.
Incitatus 3 years ago
My oldest item is a 3rd century AD bronze brooch in the shape of a swastika, which was good luck for the Ronans back then.
CowboyHank 3 years ago
Some Eastern religions still use the swastika. It was never meant to be a bad symbol. It's actually supposed to represent good luck and prosperity.
Load More Replies... UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
I’m jealous of people with a connection to some piece of history. I only have a few items dating back to early childhood (70s) and some letters my parents sent to each other when dating (late 60s).
Candi Cabaniss 2 years ago
I have my grandmother's sewing machine. She made her wedding dress on it. One of my todo project is getting it working.
Kira Okah 3 years ago
A stone made of fossilised shells in a little display box - my grandpa gave it to me from when he lived on the Isle of Wight when I was about six. Came from a gift shop in Sandown, where there are loads of dinosaur age fossils. Definitely real fossil. If you're meaning manmade, a jade hat decoration, believe it is Chinese and somewhere around the 17th/18th century, passed down the family and got used as a necklace a lot.
Xander Vrieswijk 2 years ago
My oldest item is the male side of the family their family weapon, carved in wood or on a ring, both from around the year 1300
Amy Stone-Chandler 2 years ago
I have ALOT of collectibles. Some pretty serious stuff. Have to keep it all packed up till my 2 ferrets pass away. Either that or I should start selling items. I have stamps over 100 years old too
deanna woods 2 years ago
The oldest thing in my house is my chest of drawers. It was in my sister's and my bedroom when we were kids and it's been with me since she moved out at twenty. I also have my teddy bear, Beary, that has been with me since I was six years old.
SweMilkiWae 2 years ago
We found 3 books from the 1880s to 1918s (i think they were Some sort of bibles) and a few letters in old swedish cursive from around the same years, we still have them and they are sooo amazing. (really Hard to read the letters though, as they are old swedish and cursive afterall. Swedish cursive back then was really Hard to read as a lot of letter just kind of melted into eachother 😅)
Rick Seiden 2 years ago
There's a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Buffalo, NY where there are large stones built into the fireplace (I think) that have genuine fossils in them. I think they are troglobites. and have to be tens if not 100s of millions of years old.
Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago
our house is a mid century time warp so most everything is 1940s-1970s but we have some very old books and other things like enamelware from the 19th century. I am a vintage seller and run estate sales so come in contact with some cool stuff here and there.
Brachial Artery 3 years ago
Hey I want to know more about "the presence of worker in the basement"
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