I have an arrow head collection with a large hatchet head that was estimated to be from a period around 4500 years ago. My father found it on our farm here in Ohio. Of course it is a rock and the age can not be verified and its just an educated guess.
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We have some geodes around the house that are very old. However, I have no way of dating them. With respect to coins, I have a doubloon from the Atocha and a 1776 copper penny. I have a fairly extensive selection of hand tools used by my grandfather and great grandfather. The only other old thing around here is me!
Nelson
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When this building met its demise last November some friends and I waited for the police to change shifts, then hopped the fence and pulled a few-dozen or so bricks from the rubble. They date to 1884 or 1894 - there are conflicting reports on when it was built. From a few different sides of the building I have a total of four from here, plus a small piece of one of its wood stair railings from when I managed to climb inside it. To my knowledge, these are the oldest things I have.
