CuriositiesMAY 3, 2022

"What’s The Oldest Item Or Piece Of Furniture In Your House": 35 Oldest Items Shared By Our Community

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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!

#1 This Trunk That Came Through Elis Island With My Great, Great Grandparents

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#2 I Am The Oldest Thing In My House

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#3 The Beams In Our Ceiling That Have Bern In Place Since Around 1650

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#4 This Gramophone I Got From My Grandma. I Don't Know How Old It Is. It's Still Working Though

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#5 Fully-Functioning 1914 National Cash Register. 1914 Is The Last Year They Used Brass Due To WWI

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#6 This Little Trilobite - Approx. 500 Million Years Old

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#7 Grandfather Clock From 1680s

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#8 1907 Crawford Cast Iron Stove I Finished Restoring Just This Week.

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#9 This 1894 Copy Of The Three Musketeers

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#10 Old Family Bibles From The 1820s And My Great, Great Grandparents Civil War Daguerreotypes

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#11 A Roman Amphora Made 400 Years Before Jesus Was Born

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#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

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.

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