Your oldest possession...what is it?

[P. Aaron]

Besides your own skin...what possession have you owned the longest?

Mine is a starfish a kid gave me in 1966 when I was 6 years old.

[EADGCoffee]

The oldest thing I own is a book of fables my grandmother used to read me. The item that's been in my possession the longest is an autographed Buffalo Sabres jersey, signed by the entire 98-99 team.

[Relic]

My mom saved a toy of mine from when I was a toddler, and gave it to my oldest son when he was about 2. So that one may be it, that would have to have been from around 1967 -1968.

[Jimbob Jones]

We cleared out my grandfathers desk after his passing and found a pile of unstarted pencils from a 1966 village fete. They work well!

I have quite a few old hand tools that probably date back to at least the 60's, maybe even before.They're almost all still going strong.

[Chebass88]

1st edition Mark Twain - 1869

[jonathan_matos5]

i have a red t-shirt i have owned since high school i bought it too big so it still fits. it is 12 years old.

perhaps i should throw it away.

[stratovani]

A lock of my hair from my first haircut, in 1955. Blonde and wispy, it's a far far cry from what I have now - or should I say, what I don't have now!

[MatticusMania]

Maybe a tshirt I used to wear about 10 years ago? Or some old CDs. I dont know, I dont form sentimental attachments to inanimate objects, and usually end up getting rid of things after a few years.

[FilterFunk]

My father was in the military, and was stationed in Saudi Arabia back in the '60s. He gave me some Saudi money back then, and I still have it.

[dbhokie]

Rudolf Otto 1st Edition 1917 - Das Heilige - Über das Irrationale in der Idee des Göttlichen und sein Verhältnis zum Rationalen

[tastybasslines]

A rattlesnake rattle from a snake I killed when I was 10.

[IconBasser]

my social security card.

[Phalex]

I have a box of arrow heads that have just sort of always been around. I may have inherited them from my brother, but I remember them from the way back.

They may be thousands of years old, and I've been in possession of them since I was a lad.

[MJ5150]

A cedar chest my father made in high school, so about 50 years old.

-Mike

[Chebass88]

I forgot about some paper money from the Confederate States of America.

[Staccato]

A 12 ga. Winchester Model 12 from my grandfather. It was born in 1929.
It's been restored, and looks new-from the business end, all the way to the shoulder end of the stock.

Edit: Chebass88, I forgot about the Confederate $20 that my father gave me.

[etoncrow]

Besides my birth certificate, my grandfather gave me a Winchester 20ga Model 12 pump shotgun when i was twelve. That was 1961

[Skitch it!]

A fountain pen my great grandfather used for his schoolwork Stephens Leverfill No 270. There was a lot of old war memorabilia hanging around my grandfathers farm, I remember him throwing one of these into a pond because he didn't want it hanging around, WWII British 303

[BartmanPDX]

Originally Posted by IconBasser

my social security card.

This. I've had my original one since I was born.

The oldest thing I own though would be an original volume of Livingstone's travels through central Africa from the 1870s, IIRC. I also have a hand-colored map of Africa from 1855 that has the region I studied (modern-day Zambia) as a blank area --"unexplored territory."

[MatticusMania]

I think I might have a teddy bear around somewhere that my aunt gave me when I was about 5. I think.