Someone Asked Our Community To Share Pics Of The Oldest Object In Their House, 30 Delivered

This clock has been in my family a long time. It's older than the US and it still works perfectly!

I was thinking of doing this but don't want to admit that I'm old. 😕🥴😒

Love that picture, but that picture frame! Wow exquisite.

Her birthday "today" memorialized here forever, Happy Birthday Grandma. Wishing u happy, blesses n healty times, for years to comes! BtW, 90? She looks ageless!

Dude, I am obsessed with the VW van on top! Complete with luggage and awning!

I bet there's a serial # somewhere on that old beauty to research her true age. If you're in to that kinda thing... 😺

Melon baskets (because of the shape) are the best! They hold so much stuff down inside there. I've never heard them called egg baskets but it makes perfect sense.

Style looks more 1960's than 1860's.

Woah

That's cool. I had a megalodon tooth that got lost during a move 😢

Looks older than 130 years!!! Really beautiful too!!!

Oh you have taken great care of her!!!!

Reminds me of rattlesnake rattles.

What a cool find!

Beautiful piece of history

Strange 7, anyone any ideas?

I used to call the woman on the left, all in black, the Wicked Witch of the West. Kids, what can I say?

Belonged to my mother-in-law's mom. My mother-in-law was born in 1924, so this is at least 100 years old. Her mother sold butter molded in this to her neighbors in Rome, Georgia.

No, the Evil Spirit is in the mirror down the basement! Lol

It’s worth what someone is willing to pay for it ! :)

Definitely older, if it has a treadle---though many of those old machines were electrified later on. If it works, you have a real treasure. If it doesn't, it could probably be made to run. Those early Singers are darn near indestructible. (My own Singer is a baby by comparison--1949 and I wouldn't trade it for anything.)

Luv how u said grand instead of great😍😁

Oh wow. How did you come to posses this?

Very cool

Very nice lovely colored marble.

That's a nice 16mm projector. Is it a Revere?

I'm guessing it belonged to a paleontologist, but he got tired of studying the same old $hit and sold it.

Wish I could edit my post. With reference to grabbing screen from my Heritage Auction Archives.... also replace with my own photo later. Lame 1st post from me. Will do better if I post again...

Wow! Nice bowl & spoon!!!

wow i love it!!!! looks like a mushroom

Wow! Looks exactly like Ralphie from A Christmas Story!

This stove was used during the revolutionary war. I live near valley forge Pa, very historic area. It is said that George Washington used ten plate stoves. We found this in the woods!

Wow, This is beautiful.

Wow....he's so dapper. We should all age so well and be so fashionable when we are that age.

This is a very cute kitchen!

Nice to have something from your great grandfather!

Nice! Very beautiful!

May she live as long as she wants to

I first read it as "Kardashian" Burn it now!

Wow!

The penmanship is beautiful

"Restoring" it was the hard part because, since it's so antique, you have to use things only available and used during the era it was built. So it took me a lot of research before I even started. Have to use beeswax candles to keep the drawers even remotely slidable.

My grandmother had the first editions of the original first two Winnie the Pooh books by A.A. Milne, published in 1926, as well as first editions of 3 Ernest Thompson Seton works. I've collected a number of vintage books and love their history!

I was just saying to someone else, and I'm sure you've already considered this, but to maintain its value it's a good idea to research what products were used during the period it was built so you don't degrade the value of it by using modern products to restore it. I have an old Singer first electric series that's from the mid or late 1890s that my son restored and gave me. He buys, restores, and sells them as a hobby. He uses kerosene to clean these old machines--iso alcohol ruins the lacquer. Same applies to restoring the cabinets. Electric sanders, modern polymer-based paints and finishes will ruin the value bc they aren't period-true. Antique specialists often say that it's better to leave something falling apart than to try to fix it using modern methods. I imagine you considered this, already, since you are a professional, but I thought I'd throw that in there in case you were considering updating it to modern standards in order to optimize its function. :)

Though the shape is similar, the difference in weight between this one and my great-grandmother’s older machine is huge. This one is still heavy, probably around 25-30lbs, but the older one feels like one solid hunk of iron and probably weighs closer to 50lbs. Sorry to bend the rules by sharing them both, but I don’t have a lot of heirlooms, and so I’m very proud or and attached to the ones I do have, especially my sewing related ones, as I am a professional seamstress and designer. Also my great aunt took such good care of her things! She regularly has this thing serviced up until she died! It still has its accessories, carrying case, AND instruction booklet!

I couldn't read parts of the message but here's appx. what it says, with original punctuation: Addressed to Mrs. John Lessard, Burlington, WA: Dear Sister, How are you getting along. Are you going on the farm soon. we have moved to Bristol now. We have a horse now. Will got it from his home wh---. We got a farm now so sue can k--- it. Your sister, Elsie W. Bristol Wi----

I’m sorry for your loss. It’s a lovely photo <3

Grandma bought one just like it in Egypt the late 1950s. Her husband was a college professor and invited to teach in Egypt for a year.

Baptismal Cup? I have one similar to that with my birth year on it.

The original photo bomb!

If my sis had one of these I have little doubt that I'd still have a bump on my head. ;)

Oh man, this reminds me...we have a family bible from my husband's side of the family that goes back to the 1400s! It's over 2 feet long and at least 1.5 feet wide. Biggest bible I've ever seen in my life. It's guided in gold with gold locks and has some kind of metal outer covers...I am guessing probably retrofitted well after 1400 to keep it from falling apart. Looks more like a box than a bible, at first glance. But this one you have has a lot more character than his, which I think is grey (we haven't pulled it out in like ten years) and it's so fragile you really don't want to even touch it. :/

It is lovely

I have the same ones!

That's last year's Apple Watch from Moscow