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

I have a few wooden spoons from my mother-in-law's kitchen. No idea how old they are but I reckon they may be pre-war.

My piano, which is the one I grew up with and learned on. It is a Broadwood Cottage Upright and was bought for my oldest grandfather to learn on when he was around seven or eight, so just pre World War One. It has a ver special old-world sound. It is far too delicate now for me to use it as a teaching piano so sits next to the Yamaha piano which I use for this purpose. I always say that I love the Yamaha but the Broadwood is the one which will always be in my heart.

An oval occasional table/plant stand with barley twist legs that belonged to my mother, the brown Denby coffee pot that she made my father’s coffee in for as long as I could remember, and a green pressed glass fruit bowl that looks lovely full of nectarines. Of my own, the canteen of Sheffield plate that my parents gave us as a wedding present, and a Granton ham knife, also a wedding present from a neighbour. The knife has been used almost daily for fifty six years and has had the handle replaced so that it can go on being used until I pass it on.

2 table spoons that were my Grans. I believe she got them as a wedding present in 1919.

They are so worn the bowls have about a 45 degree angle rather than the rounded end they started with.

A bowl full of fossils and Roman pottery.

My sewing machine, record player, dining table and chairs are probably the oldest things, also grandma's embroidered tablecloths which I use on a daily basis.

Ah, didn't realise that meant furniture as well.

But thinking of it, it is the house itself- dates from 1587

A sewing machine and a silver tablespoon that were my grandmother's.
She was born in 1895.

Possibly our 17thC 3-over-6 chest of drawers which we bought with the money from an auction of some of my parents' furniture when they died. It is in daily use.

A runner bean slicer that was my paternal grandmothers probably from 20/30s

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I have my Mum’s trifle bowl from the 50’s in regular use. I think the oldest item I have in use is a large oval serving dish which belonged to my maternal grandmother. It must be at least 130 years old. I serve the Christmas turkey on it every year.

I have my mums trifle bowl, too. And I bet she inherited it from her mum. I was going to use it this Christmas but we weren’t going to eat the trifle in one day and I didn’t have room in the fridge for it. I do have two plastic plates that we used to use for camping in the 70’s. I use them every day to chop vegetables on etc. and I have my friend Tony’s prep school knife. No idea how I ended up with it and Tony is long since gone.

I was given my OH's grandmother's enamel dish to make rice pudding in.
Rice pudding is one of his favourites but I haven't found the magic formula yet, despite having the special dish!

I also have my own G'mother's crib, nothing posh but used by her every year, and now by us for the last 40 years.
When she died my uncle held an open house and friends and relations were invited to choose a memento. Both her brothers were antiques dealers so goodness alone knows how many valuable and old things found new homes that day. I'm so glad they did - not a clutterer myself!

We had a Pyrex dinner service as a wedding present in 1969. We still have the gravy boat.

My DM's big yellow mixing bowl that was brought out every Saturday morning when I was a child for the weekly pastry baking session; must be 1940s. I make my Christmas cake and puddings in it.

And I also have a Philips electric beater that I bought in 1969 when we lived in Singapore. Still works perfectly.

Also our beautiful Norwegian brushed stainless steel cutlery, also bought in Singapore about the same time; use it every day. Used to only use it for best, but it's too lovely to sit in a drawer, so it's been in every day use for a few years now.

Oh, yes. I forgot about the house until reminded by MOnica. Mine's not as old as hers but is at least late 17thC. And is in daily use

A brass door stopper of a prancing horse that belonged to my grandmother, probably about 110 years old.

If my mother hadn't given it away, we would have had Sir Walter Scott's footstool. I thought it had gone to a museum in Edinburgh, but turns out my cousin now has it!

I have several antique (100+years) pieces of French furniture, mirrors and bibelots, as well as Chinese articles. I like mixing old with modern. It’s the beds that are renewed but they were never antique.

Our dining table dates from about 1662. We bought it about 20 years ago.
We have furniture made by my husband’s grandfather from about 100 years ago.
We have a clock in use dated 1890.
From grandparents we have a set of bone-handled silver fish servers.
Bought from new and still in regular use are kitchen scales from 1950 ies and a food mixer from 1970.
Plenty of old stuff in this house!

PS I also have antique textiles and crockery but they aren’t in everyday use and aren’t from family members.

My Gran married in 1902, I still have and use some glass dessert bowls that were a wedding present.
A rolling pin from my Aunt, she was married in 1920 and bought it then, I use it all the time, although it is a bit narrow, but the wood is lovely.
A small circular wooden side table with a lift up top and a drawer that my Grandad made before he married my Gran in 1902, I have a lamp on it and odds and ends inside it, it’s a bit tatty now but I love it.

We’ve got OH’s grandads desk and a desk bureau from my family home that’s probably from the inter war years.

The oldest item belonging solely to us is a dimple roasting dish we obtained with green shield stamps before we married. OH was a smoker then and the stamps built up!

My great grandmother’s wedding ring. Mid Victorian? My mother was given it by her mother in 1947 as her thin wartime wedding ring broke. Because she was pregnant, my grandmother could not allow her not to wear a wedding ring. 😱
I also use my grandmother’s stoneware salt pot to store vegetables. I was told she bought blocks of salt and broke it into useable pieces with a special hammer.

Almost all the furniture, except for the sofa and mattresses, it is akmost all 100 years old at least and some is considerably older. The house itself is 555 years old.

I have my grandmother's grandmother clock! I would guess it dates from around 1900.

I also have her dinner service which is about the same date I would think. I don't use it much but could not bear to see it go when I moved as it brings back fond memories of holidays at her seaside home as a child - and piled high plates - she was a demon cook, even though she only weighed about 5 stone!

A chest of drawers built by my GGF. He was a carriage builder on the railways. My Great Aunt had it after him, then my GM, then my DM, now me.