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Hm... 1901 copy of Emma, I guess? Second oldest would my grandma's wedding ring that she gave me, since it's probably 70-80 years old.

Definitely a book. Would have to look up which one. I used to have one from the 1870s but I think I lost at some point.

Probably my stuffed dalmatian that I got when I was 4. He is still going strong.

*stuffed animal high five*

I have a stuffed walrus from when I was 7. He is also still going strong, and is a treasured companion. :P

Mine lost his tail when I was a kid but my grandma was able to sew it back on. :D

Probably my baby blanket. It's just so cozy and I can't get rid of it.

Same here. My parents put it in a little memorial box thing for me, since it had gotten kind of worn and torn up.

I found a fallout shelter sign, so that's probably super-old?

A crystal paperweight engraved June 16 / 1894, given to my great grandparents as a wedding gift. (No, I didn't accidentally drop a couple of 'greats'; the generations in my family are super spread out.)

I feel you. My grandma was born in 1903, and I'm barely in my 30s, so. SPREAD OUT GENERATIONS REPRESENT!

Damn! You've got me beat. I'm 30 and my grandfather was born in 1910.

Having such spread out generations is interesting to me, now that I'm older and have some perspective on it. It's like having a brush with history, in a weird way, you know? I mean, when I remember my grandfather, I remember someone who felt like he was from another time in a really distinct way. He wasn't just an elderly person, he was historical. Like, three of his siblings died at once of Spanish Flu. He helped run the farm when he was in single digits. He was going to become a doctor but then his eyesight started to fail him and he was told he would never become a doctor, so he became a teacher instead. Plus, the way he raised my dad was really outdated and strict, even for the 50s. (Fortunately my dad didn't follow suit.)

Probably my baby book. It's one of those diary sort of things where you write about the pregnancy/birth, first words, etc. I didn't know my mother even kept one until we dug it out of the attic after she left. It's kind of surreal reading tbh.

A great-grandmother's British cookbook from the late 1880s.

...though the grandfather clock might also be from the late 1800s? It belonged to my Great-Aunt Mabel, but I don't know if she was the first owner.

I also have a Queen Victoria gold sovereign from 1898.

I think the stuffed raccoon I've had since I was like 2 or 3? It was the first stuffed animal I got and he's been with me ever since.

My parents used to have a small farm in central coast California, and they had a box full of waste shards from worked stone, plus one stone implement (a knife? A scraper? Idk) that they found there, that’s probably older than the tiny tintypes of the people who built the farmhouse that look like they’re from the 1860s-70s. And I have a poetry book from 1880-something somewhere. Oh, and if we’re including non-manmade stuff then a fossil ammonite.

Cool! Possibly Coast Miwok people made the scraper and the shards.

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Actually now that I think about it, it's probably more like Esselen or Coastanoan people, rather than Miwok folks.

A ring I got when I was 4. I'm 50 now. Back at my parents house, I had a box of Native American arrowheads, old musket balls, and a couple of Civil War era lead bullets that I found in the fields around the house.

Squirry is a squirrel plushy that was given to me a few days after I was born, by my aunt (Mum's sister). He's doing well, over on the bookcase where most of my plushies now live along with my collection of zoo plushies (Taronga, Aukland, Hobart).

Some of my other Elder plushies include Rabby (a rabbit), Kitty (a small pink kitten) and Pup (a dog) who is at the edges of memory, since I got him for Xmas when I was about 5 years old.

My names for plushies started to get more creative after that point.

I have some fossils of ancient sea critters.

Wooden dresser from 1634.

That I can name off-hand?

A walrus tusk scrimshaw that my grandfather picked up when he was stationed in Alaska in 1941. I probably have some books that are older, but I don't remember which ones off the top of my head.

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