Just wondering what passes the test of time? I personally have an old Casio watch and if you count fruit trees, those are pretty old too.
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Hmm, probably cookware from the 1960’s. Furniture too, if that counts. It’s possible something in the kitchen is actually a generation older, although I’m not sure.
If you include decorations as opposed to just tools it goes back almost arbitrarily (I have 19th century heirlooms, pre-settlement arrowheads and Cambrian period fossils), but I think the spirit of the question is more about things finding a totally pragmatic application.
Edit: I also have a touch-sensitive lamp of a similar age to the cookware. I’m not sure how it works exactly, but I’m guessing the entire exterior is one big capacitor, and it must have a very early transistor inside to switch it. It’s not quite used daily, but it’s sure interesting.
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Huh, very cool! Nobody in the family could remember where mine actually came from. Nobody else knew enough about electronics to be impressed by how old it is, either. Actually I’m lucky it came up.
There’s no markings I can see. If Alladin had a patent on it maybe that would be the place to start looking for the model.
There’s no mechanical relay I can hear and no tube warmup period, but on the other hand it has no boot period and it does behave oddly depending on the quality of mains power (so analog). The person who almost certainly bought it died in the 1970’s.
My back. Its getting creeky though.
A vehicle.
My dining room table was originally owned by my great grandmother and was passed down through the family and transported almost 2000km to it’s current location in our house.
My razor handle was manufactured in the 50s
Same. 1956 Gillette Super Speed. They used to make great stuff.
47 gillete aristocrat. There’s alot of old razors in this post.
One of my bike’s is 30 years old, and I use it all the time.
But as far as oldest stuff I still use, probably things like certain furniture, tools, and kitchen stuff, which would have been inherited from grandparents who have long passed.
Honorable mention for my truck. 1997 F-150. Turns 28 this year, just put a rebuilt motor in it, hoping for another 20 years.
A pair of toe-nail clippers my grandfather gifted me. I’m guessing late 1940s. As far as I can tell, it was something he bought from the on-base military store as things were winding down after WW2. It’s rugged in a way you wouldn’t expect - it was clearly built to last, well, indefinitely. Has this excellent leather carrying case in military olive green that is also wildly over-designed. Not flashy, just built to last.
It really makes me appreciate - we used to know how to make things here (USA). And we were so good at it, even the dumb little things could be built to last.
The US still does build things, just mostly expensive things.
My violin was made in 1614, but to be honest I use my practice violin daily and use that as my concert violin, and tune and play it weekly.
My ass. No way. How do you know it’s authentic, let alone date it to that time period? Secondly show us!
Lloyd’s of London authenticated the tag inside, and the age. If I remember to, I will post a picture when I pull it out this next week.
How paranoid are you about dropping it or falling while holding it? That’s literally what I think every time I hear about instruments like this.
That would be among the few things left over from the age of knights and the black death (or the end of that period, anyway), and even modern instruments can be unbelievably valuable.
Not particularly. The wood sat in the harbor nearest to Brefchia to age for two years before Magini ever even touched it. It’s pretty sturdy all things considered. The violin held up better than the original bow and wooden case. We fumigated all of them because they had become infected with bow mites. The original case and bow are in the attic, mostly she currently lives in a crushed velvet lined climate controlled case. Not playing her would do more damage than breaking her out and keeping her in tune.
Lol, it looks like that particular dude died in a plague outbreak.
Are all the previous owners known? I can only imagine the stories such an object might tell us if it could speak (as well as sing).
Not exactly. There’s a break in the chain of ownership, when it came to the new world in the late 1700s. We’re not entirely certain how my great great great grandfather came into possession of it, but we believe that he either won it in a game of poker, or he possibly stole it during the commotion of the last quarter century of the 1700s.
Thanks for the info on Magini. I just knew he made my violin, or more likely one of his apprentices. And that he and another dude in Florence
arewere simultaneously credited for inventing the thing independently of each other.Edit: there’s a fuckton more info on the guy than I could find back in 1993 when I looked into him
Glad to help!
or he possibly stole it during the commotion of the last quarter century of the 1700s.
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I see the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, lol.
That right there is one of the stories I’d love to know the details of.
Expensive piece of kit! I assume you’re a professional musician?
Sadly, no. I was told by my cousins, who are professional violinists, that I had the ability, but they didn’t inform me of that until I was already 25 and a chef.
I inherited the thing because I found it in my grandma’s closet when I was 6 and helping her clean her room. I asked her who owned it, and she said it was my dead grandpa’s violin. So I asked again, then who’s is it? She thought about it and said “I dunno, I guess whichever of you grandkids learns to play it first.”
I inherited the thing because I found it in my grandma’s closet when I was 6 and helping her clean her room. I asked her who owned it, and she said it was my dead grandpa’s violin. So I asked again, then who’s is it? She thought about it and said “I dunno, I guess whichever of you grandkids learns to play it first.”
Have you had it insured? I see they go for roughly 20.000 to 150.000 USD, so I assume it’s an ‘of course I have’ moment, but you seem to be quite nonchalant with it so far :D
Got it insured by Lloyd’s of London when they authenticated it’s age and tag. That’s the source of my nonchalance.
Edit: I will say their insurance policies are astounding in what they cover, but they are pricey.
Your mom
The radio alarm clock, couldn’t find the specific year only to narrow towards the late 70s.
My flat, the building was built around the beginning of the 70s.
Probably my original day 1 psp.
My house but it isn’t really that old, around WW2.
Although I have some games that are 100s or even 1000s of years old, but that is a set of rules rather than a physical thing.
A spoon. One Sterling Silver spoon that I have used in my coffee cup since 1978. It has survived every move. It knows more about me than any human on Earth. It has become so ubiquitous that I get really annoyed if I misplace it and I will look for it before that first cup.
I have no idea why.
This makes me want to build more stable rituals. I’m always changing things up.
I have a cupboard from 1789. I use it to store stuff, so yeah, I use it every day.
My knees
Technically the rest of you is basically just as old but hooeee I know it sure doesn’t feel that way
