Whats your oldest personal possession

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An American Waltham pocket watch 1908. All original but would love a replacement crystal.
Works perfectly and had a wrist strap made for it (WW1 design reconstruction)

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I keep lots of old stuff. Toys, paper money different countries, coins, trains, tools, locomotive stuff, electronics...but this is one of my favs. Probably the most useful too. My Standard Arms Model M pump rifle, chambered for .30 caliber Remington.
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One thing I have that gets used daily is a key ring I got in the mid sixties.
Something else is a McCulloch 2 cycle go cart engine I put on a minibike I built, in '66, made it pretty fast.
Have a Remington .22 pump rifle my dad bought new in the early 50s.
Have lots of old to really old tools, Some I bought new in the early 70s, my grandfather and uncle gave me stuff that dates back to the 30s.
When I got married my wife brought along tools that had been her father's, some very old including a Black & Decker electric drill with patent dates from the 20s and a ratcheting style pipe threader patented in 1896, it looks very much like ones you can buy today and still works great.
 
Yeah, at one time had several braces that worked, and all the old, well relevant to our cars, brake tools. All gone, tossed because of moving and didn't see a need for them for next several years. Not me, as I wasn't even a teenager yet.
 
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I saved this as a 13yr old, 45yrs.
dates 2-14-1863...
Have a 1851 Calvary sword handed down through family, recovered during civil war.
My love of old goes beyond cars too.
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Thanks @Ddaddy I had no idea. I was born in 1963 so I guess he bought it just before that. Here are some other cars.

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@66fyssh here is some more information about your train set.

Engine 247, used in train sets 1959-1961
Box Car 6464-525, made in 1957 (yours has the date on the side, BLT 6-57)
Caboose 6017, made from 1951-1962
Flat car 6826, used in train sets 1959-1960. It is also actually a "Christmas tree car" and the boxes on it in your pic are incorrect. It should look like this:

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I have a metal piece from the civil war that says something "dragoons" on it, was my Grandma's great-uncle's I believe, I found it on a shelf in a room full of junk, and now I don't remember what I did with it. But it is somewhere around here. Not considered valuable by collectors or anything and I didn't know my Grandma had it even. I also have her wedding rings from 1925. So tiny.
 
I have a metal piece from the civil war that says something "dragoons" on it, was my Grandma's great-uncle's I believe, I found it on a shelf in a room full of junk, and now I don't remember what I did with it. But it is somewhere around here. Not considered valuable by collectors or anything and I didn't know my Grandma had it even. I also have her wedding rings from 1925. So tiny.

"Colt" Dragoons, perhaps. It could be valuable. As the original design was made by Colt from 1848 to 1860.
 
"Colt" Dragoons, perhaps. It could be valuable. As the original design was made by Colt from 1848 to 1860.

Hmmm I don't know, it's just an oval piece of metal a soldier would wear, I think, that identified what regiment he was in?
 
A few years ago I bought a Knights Templar ceremonial sword at a yard sale for $5.

Turns out it was made in 1927 and is valued at around $250.

When added to my 1970's ROTC color guard sword (not mine originally) that creates my sword "collection".
 
This was my wife’s grandmothers. It is probably one of the oldest things we have that I can think of
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My grandfather once told me youre never really gone till there is no one left to remember you.
This is soo very true, well put..
My dear dads cannon. In my youth my brothers and I were playing in one of the out buildings on the family farm. Reaching for one of the rafters to swing on, I grab a hold of this unknowing and shock to see it was a cannon! Showed it to Dad when he got home from work, he stared at it for the longest time. “I wondered where that went”, he said his dad probability hid it. It made such a racket, that it scared the livestock. Knowing my farther and his brothers, grandpa did the right thing.

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This snap on ratchet may be the oldest thing I own. Not sure. When the snap on guy rebuilt it for me, he said it must be old because apparently it was made in Canada and snap on only made tools in Canada a long time ago. Any Body know?

Cley
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Wish I had all my GI Joe's and Hot Wheels from the 60's. $$$$$$$$$$
I gave mine to my daughter, who has them for her daughters to use and abuse once they are old enough not to try and eat them. I was looking for my masking tape one day when the daughter was 5 or 6, gave up on finding the tape, go to gather her up to go to the hardware store to get some, walk into her room, there's the tape. She had used it to make highways for the Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars. She had the Matchbox tractors and construction equipment parked around the freeway in an appropriate manner as if they were doing something constructive. I bought extra tape. Other than that, a Model 69 Winchester .22 bolt gun, it was my fathers when he was a kid. Wreaked havoc on the indigenous wildlife of the Mojave desert with that rifle. :lol: Don't tell the tree huggers!
 
I actually had to think hard on this one, I have alot of things that my family has left to me.

The one that is not going away is the family farm, I don't live there anymore, but keep it maintained.
It came into existence on a land grant.
 
This snap on ratchet may be the oldest thing I own. Not sure. When the snap on guy rebuilt it for me, he said it must be old because apparently it was made in Canada and snap on only made tools in Canada a long time ago. Any Body know?

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Made between '50 and '67 according to ToolArchives.com Snap on L710 Canada version | The Tool Archives:

Snap on L710 Canada version
Posted by snapmom on Saturday, 16 January 2016
Snap on L710 Canada version. 1/2 drive. There are two USA versions and a Canada version., USA 1950-59 and 60-67. This one is a Canada 1958. The early USA version compared to the Canada version. The USA version has the name, model number and USA on one side. The Canada version has a large Snap on Logo on one side and the model number and Can on the other. The rings on handle on the USA version are a bit bigger. The early L710 has a flat shaft on both sides.

Drive Size:

1/2
Date Code:
1958
Ratchet Manufacturer:

Snap-On
Ratchet Brand:
Snap-On
Production Begin Year:
1950
Production End Year:
1967
Year Produced:
1958
Ratchet Overall Length:
10
 
Made between '50 and '67 according to ToolArchives.com Snap on L710 Canada version | The Tool Archives:

Snap on L710 Canada version
Posted by snapmom on Saturday, 16 January 2016
Snap on L710 Canada version. 1/2 drive. There are two USA versions and a Canada version., USA 1950-59 and 60-67. This one is a Canada 1958. The early USA version compared to the Canada version. The USA version has the name, model number and USA on one side. The Canada version has a large Snap on Logo on one side and the model number and Can on the other. The rings on handle on the USA version are a bit bigger. The early L710 has a flat shaft on both sides.

Drive Size:

1/2
Date Code:
1958
Ratchet Manufacturer:

Snap-On
Ratchet Brand:
Snap-On
Production Begin Year:
1950
Production End Year:
1967
Year Produced:
1958
Ratchet Overall Length:
10
Wow, thanks for the info. I really appreciate it.
Cley
 
A fossil I dug out of the side of a cliff in Newfoundland 40 something years ago .I'm told it's 350 million years old
 
WWII souvenirs my grandfather brought back, luger P08 9MM, 2 Luftwaffe daggers, Hitler youth knife and a box full of rank patches and other Nazi knick knacks.
 
I have older stuff, but this one was mine from day one. 1957 Garton Hot Rod. My two sons in the picture with it... they are in their thirties now with kids of their own.

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