What is the oldest artifact you own?

[teddyv]

I collect (very) old books - my favorite and oldest is a very old Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort in decent shape, even has most of the woodcuts.

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

how was he allowed to take it, shouldnt they be in a museum or being studied, i would have thought they would be of historical value that the government wouldnt want them to leave the country

EVERYONE STAND BACK! WE HAVE A FLATLINER!

Charging, Charging, Clear!

It's not working! Gimme an amp of epi and .5 of atropine STAT!! And charge to 360!

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

It's not working! Gimme an amp of epi and .5 of atropine STAT!! And charge to 360!

Wow I can hear your caps whining all the way over here.

 

[DAGTA]

I had an old Roman Coin but I lost that at some point.

Currently I have a copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that dates to about 1890 as far as I can tell.

Computer Related: I have a green punchcard.

 

[DAGTA]

Some of the people in this thread need to learn what an artifact is.

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

It's not working! Gimme an amp of epi and .5 of atropine STAT!! And charge to 360!

Wow I can hear your caps whining all the way over here.

Sadly I've heard they whine of a defib charging up...as 'cool' as it is to watch on a TV show, when you see it in real life not so cool...but anyways I'll try and turn them caps down, they are noisy tonight arent they

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
Some of the people in this thread need to learn what an artifact is.

I used to get them all the time when the graphics memory clock was set too high.

 

[Coquito]

A book of chinese ghost stories from the late 1800.

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: DAGTA
Some of the people in this thread need to learn what an artifact is.

I used to get them all the time when the graphics memory clock was set too high.

:laugh: Nice!

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: DAGTA
Some of the people in this thread need to learn what an artifact is.

I used to get them all the time when the graphics memory clock was set too high.

:laugh: Nice!

I wish I had a girlfriend that said that!

 

[AStar617]

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
I have a regular Nintendo, circa 1986, got it for my 4th birthday.

Beat that.

i have a working Atari 2600 w/ about 12 games...have both joysticks and the paddle controllers...

also have pac man fever on 45 (hope some of you know what 45 is)...

LOL, would you believe that I can outdo that quirky entry?

Entire Pac-Man Fever album on LP

:laugh:

Far from the oldest thing I have tho... might buy my grandfather's house, built in 1873. That would probably be the oldest for me.

 

[Anubis]

the decanter that the first white settler into the state of Maine carried, its a family heirloom
1700s?
alot

 

[JinLien]

Palaeozoic Cambrian fossils
Sung dynasty celadon bowl
1845 gold coin

 

[nageov3t]

probably my nintendo

 

[JLGatsby]

Originally posted by: Anubis
the decanter that the first white settler into the state of Maine carried, its a family heirloom
1700s?
alot

First white settler?

Has a non-white person ever visited Maine? :laugh:

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby

Originally posted by: Anubis
the decanter that the first white settler into the state of Maine carried, its a family heirloom
1700s?
alot

First white settler?

Has a non-white person ever visited Maine? :laugh:

i know you are trying to make a joke however i clearly ment the first white setteler as in a non americian indian, IE pretty much a british person that came over on a boat

 

[krunchykrome]

Black Lotus (revised edition)

 

[minendo]

I own a cast iron wood burning stove from the late 1800's. Sits in my basement and keeps my place nice and warm during the winter.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Black Lotus (revised edition)

ummmmm k.......

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Black Lotus (revised edition)

Pig....

Oh well

Birds of Paradise Revised, 4th and 5th edition
And
6 Strip mines from Antiquities

 

[RU482]

I have a can of Busch light from 1992

 

[erub]

looking around my apartment, the oldest thing i have is probably the bed my parents slept in, circa 1983

 

[JLGatsby]

Originally posted by: erub
looking around my apartment, the oldest thing i have is probably the bed my parents slept in, circa 1983

Please to god don't tell me that you sleep in it to this day.

 

[AlienCraft]

Some Dutch clay pipes from aprox.1650 to 1750.

I have an old coin from Masstricht but don't remember the date.

I have some friends from Holland who gave them to me. John is a member of the Dutch Special Forces and as part of his duties detecting and removing ordnance (and the occasional B-25) left over from WW2 from farmer's fields, found them.
I also own an Edison Company Radi-Ola. The tuning capacitor on the AM radio is fused and inoperable, but the Victrola works beautifully. I think the date marked on the cabinet is April 1908

 

[IronWing]

We have a Han dynasty jar which dates ~0 AD and flint flakes that date to roughly 2000 B.C.

The oldest fossil we have is a stromatolite from the Gunflint chert.

From Wikipedia:

The Gunflint chert is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and western Ontario along the north shore of Lake Superior. The black layers in the sequence contain microfossils that are 1.9 to 2.3 Billion years in age. Stromatolite colonies that have been converted to jasper are found in Ontario. The formation consists of alternating layers of iron oxide rich layers interbedded with silica rich zones. The iron oxides are typically hematite or magnetite with ilmenite while the silicates are predominantly cryptocrystalline quartz as chert or jasper along with some minor silicate minerals.

Stanley Tyler in 1953 examined the area and noted the red stromatolites. He also sampled a jet-black chert layer which when observed petrographically revealed some small spheres, rods and filaments which were less than 10 micrometres in size. Elso Barghoorn, a paleobotanist at Harvard, looked at the samples and stated they were indeed structurally preserved unicellular organisms.[1] In 1965 the two published their finding and named a variety of organisms from the Gunflint. This created a rush to explore Precambrian fossils from similar environments.

The oldest rocks we have are meteorites that date from the formation of the solar system, around 4.6 billion years old.

Do I win this round of the e-penis size war?