Some old things I have that come to mind:
Of course I have a few fossils that are the oldest. My house is only about 80 yrs. old.
I still have a pair of ledderhosen (little leather shorts decorated with Austro-Hungarian motifs) from when I was about 2-1/2 yrs old still living in Austria where I was born...now I'm 59 so those little shorts are about as old as I am. When I was a young kid I was so tempted to cut chunks out of them to make pouches for slingshots...glad I didn't.
When I was about 8 or 9 yo living in Philadelphia, at our local playground I dug up a copper commemorative medallion that looks like a giant penny about 3+ inches in diameter and more than 1/4" thick, it was minted in 1876 to commemorate the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia; it has beautiful relief details all over it and a name of somebody from South Carolina. I still have that medallion. I found pics of it online so it's a real historic item.
I had an original newspaper from about 1774 or thereabouts, I forget the exact date, but when I got divorced my ex ended up with it. It's printed on what almost feels like cloth rather than paper. It mentions cool things like ships that were in colonial ports and what cargo they carried, plus some political stuff relating to the conflict with the King/English...obviously the publisher was a royalist. It was given to my ex and I by a friend whose great great great...etc uncle was the famous publisher of that paper back then.
Other cool stuff like photographs of my parents, grandparents, and other family when they were very young, some of those photos are about 100 yrs old now.
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