Oldest thing in use in your house? ( Spouses don’t count)

I have my maternal grandma’s engagement ring, which I sometimes wear.

I have my paternal great grandmas serving platter, which must be approximately 150 years ago which was used on Christmas Day for the Turkey.

I have my paternal Grandmas dinner service which was a wedding present when she got married along with a grandmother clock and another carriage type clock which came down from her family.

We regularly use a serving spoon that was MIL’s. I have no idea how old it is but for an idea - if she were still alive she would now be 96.

I think our oldest thing is a 1930's stylish, chrome and glass cocktail trolley. It was an engagement/wedding present to my parents.

Unfortunately it is just stuck in a bedroom, as we have nowhere to use it downstairs.

A couple of 17th century bits from my granny. A painting and a wash bowl and jug.

What a lovely, interesting thread 😊

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I have a heavy glass disc for milk pan, it rattles when milk boiling over! Also 2 silver serving spoons.

Antiques from DH’s side, my granny’s candlesticks (150 yrs old), a tablecloth embroidered by DM (over 100 yrs old). All in use.

I’m wearing my great aunt’s (the original Eleanor) wedding ring, passed down from 1861. It came to me, as the youngest daughter three years ago, when my mum died. I love it.

I also have a candlestick holder she used in WW1 which is a “Wee Willie Winkie” style piece from about 1880. I used it the other evening just to see it lit.

And only recently realised that amongst books from my mums house was a first edition Voltaire 1733 😲
That's precious, especially with the family history!

I've got my grandparents' Arts and Crafts sideboard but the item that is really in constant use is a jar opener that my grandfather bought when I was about 10, so 66 years old. It's a very simple thing but the most effective thin I've ever found for difficult jars.

How many of us have got one of these?
Older than the dinosaurs.

However, I wouldn't say it's useful, just decorative.

Red stepstool that was made by either by grandfather or great grandfather, so early 1900's or late 1890's. Well used
Also have a camphor chest that dad brought home in the 1950's still holds linen

Well I do have an Ammonite from Whitby area that's 200 million years old...

Until a few weeks ago I had 40 year old mixing bowl but I have just bought a new one and recycled the old one.

Great Aunt's embroidery from late 1920's.
Great Uncle was a water colourist, picture circa 1935.

A bible I found in a charity shop 1870's with cigarettes cards from the 1920's marking passages.

And only recently realised that amongst books from my mums house was a first edition Voltaire 1733.

Its' in English ("Letters on the English" but was given to her in France where she was trapped during WW2 for the duration.

Goodness knows its history! Its signed as a gift from the French family she was sent as au pair to. Was sitting in mums bookcase as if just any old book.
I opened recently and I had a further surprise, its partly Voltaire relating his experiences meeting these peculiar people who called themselves "Quakers". (I am one, but not a family thing at all).

Appart from my husband a bread knife I kept after my mil died. It’s years old she was 96 and had had it as a wedding present.

My camphor chest with carved dragons that my mum brought back from Malaya. She was pregnant with me when she came back so I guess it is 70 years old.

Actually, the more I think about it- an awful lot. An 18C clock and quite a bit of Georgian pewter, and a book of cuttings about OH's grandfather's Victorian theatre decors for famous plays in famous theatres all over the world.

But as said above, probably some amonites.

A 1950 Kenwood blender that was a wedding present of Mom and Dad's still working perfectly and so useful.

A Georgian enamel plate, fab for apple pies and a various daily uses besides.

My grans preserving pan, she was born in 1898.

A bone-handled knife which was owned by a great-aunt's mother who used to 'do teas' for visitors to a castle in the 1800s.

Someone put it in the dishwasher! 😫

For items used often, our cutlery was handed down from an aunt of DH's when she bought new. It has a pattern from the 70's I'm guessing. Our waffle-iron was a wedding gift for my MIL, so some time in the late 50's. DH re-wired it so it is still safe to use.

I have various china and embroidery from my mother and DH's but not in use often; special occasions only. My parents immigrated in the 50's so came with smaller items, no furniture.

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