Random LJ Scavenger Hunt: Day Nine

[pyjamapants]

Day nine is your day to post the oldest thing you own.

I was really, really hoping mine would be the piano, but I tracked down the serial number. Alas, the piano is from 1952.

So, the oldest thing I own is debatable, as we do not yet entirely own our house... But it was built in 1900, which easily makes it the oldest thing I (we) own.

This relic at the top of our stairs is from when our house had gas lamps.  

Comments

[sunnythirty3.livejournal.com]

I'm not doing the meme, but we have a little table we bought in the Far North of Nz which is made from swamp kauri. That is kauri trees that fell into swamps thousands of years ago and were preserved, then dug up later. The furniture all come with special certificates to say the wood has been carbon dated... 20,000 or so years old!

[christev.livejournal.com]

Oh, you should do just this day of the scavenger hunt, then!

[pyjamapants.livejournal.com]

VERY COOL! I wanna see!!!!!!!