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[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Probably some of my japanese wood working tools. It's hard to tell for sure though.

I buy all of my tools from an online discount store and they never have any known origin. It's difficult to date because Japanese tools are extremely traditional and a modern one can be indistinguishable from an ancient one.

That being said some of my tools show signs of extremely strenuous use and are definitely on the older side. Additionally they are made of wrought iron, it comes from raw pig iron and has to be hand forged and shaped. Most Japanese tools now use modern soft iron with exceptions being very high end tools and very experienced blacksmiths (making tools out of wrought iron is much more difficult).

After comparing images of Japanese tools from various time periods I estimate one of my plane blades could be from the 1800s. Mostly wishful thinking but definitely in the realm of possibility. Unfortunately the blacksmith that forged it was not famous enough to have any recorded information, documentation or mentions but it is still an exquisitely crafted blade, even if it's seen a lot of love.

[-] MrZee@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I have a couple of Griswold cast iron skillets - an “8” and a “10”. I just looked up their particular vintage and they are both from 1930-1939, so 83 to 93 years old. Im confident that those are the oldest things I have that I use regularly and they are probably the oldest things I own.

[-] NikkiNikkiNikki@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Compaq portable plus luggable PC

Need to redo the foam and foil keys but otherwise it works great, let out the magic smoke the first time i powered it up so i did a re-cap and now it starts fine.

And it even has a working hard drive!

I also have an IBM Lexmark model M keyboard I use as my daily driver

[-] joe_archer@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

My house. Built in the 1840s.

[-] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
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[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 4 points 1 year ago

Like the think that I have owned the longest? Or the thing that was made the longest ago?

If it's the thing that I've owned the longest, my cartridge of Mega Man X, which I have owned since about 1995 or 1996.

If it's the thing that was made the longest ago, my wife's sewing kit that she inherited from her aunt, which was probably made in the 1970s.

[-] Carter@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Probably my house? Think it was built in 1928.

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[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Now go to the museum and have Blathers assess it.

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

An old brass model train from the 60s. We don't have an exact date, but that what I've been told.

Someone converted it to DCC at some point, but otherwise original.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

nothing really. I stopped being a sentimentalist/collector/hoarder years ago, I've packed up my life into cardboard boxes and moved all over the world more than 35 times in my life and I've just got no energy left to drag around old things with me everywhere I go.

[-] Demonmariner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] can_of_giraffe@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

That i can think of, a pre-1937 hand tool. Pre Stanley brand brace hand drill, recent purchase, dirt cheap compared to new, and only needed a quick clean.

[-] chowder@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great-grandfathers watch. It doesn't run anymore but I still love to keep it.

[-] Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know if you've looked into it or not, but you might be surprised at how cheap some watch repairs are.

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

My house was built in '53

[-] Rocky60@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

My parents ashes in my basement. My dad was born in ‘32

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Some volcanic rocks from mt St Helens

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

My house. Just the house.

[-] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I have a top loader NES and two games I bought for it.

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some sea snail fossils probably

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

1960s Wurlitzer electronic piano.

[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ive got a Magnavox Odyssey

[-] Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

My piano technique book from 1960 I purchased from a second hand store. I bought it and have been teaching myself piano.

A camcorder from 2002. Imagine 00's skateboarding clips!

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

F-70 "patent applied for" 3/8 Snap-On ratcheting wrench from 1933, still works. I know I have older tools but I haven't or couldn't date them.

I do have older coins, but the wrench is cooler.

[-] Bopaloobop@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

A Dunn & Co. boater hat from ~1890 with a blue and white striped band.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Gilette Fat Boy razor.

[-] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

A 1960 Deutz D15 tractor from my grandfather.

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