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[nicebloke1]

Whats the oldest piece of furniture or item in your house. I have a victorian metal plant stand about 3 feet high that I found in a out house about 20years ago. With surface rust on it I had it sand blasted, then repainted it.

[Atheist]

In my English home I have a genuine oil-on-wood-panel painting of a crossing sweep (anaemic young sad-looking urchin with a birch-broom in one hand, standing beneath what could be an open-fronted shelter with old tattered posters pasted onto the back wall). Signed E (Edith) Hartley. I believe she was knocking these paintings out in the late 1800's. This work has been in my wife's family for many years.

In my French property, an unsigned oil-on-canvas painting allegedly by Greuze, annotated on the back of the stretcher with the hand-written name of the alleged painter and the title 'Child Holding an Apple', bought for ten euros in a Red-Cross charity shop in Montmorillon (sadly recovering from a flooding event a few days ago). It's a genuine oil painting which I presume is a copy by an art student. It looks to me to be 19th century, and bought by me for 10 Euros. Greuze did churn out wistful children cuddling apples. If a copy (which I'm sure it is) then very competently executed. Greuze was working in the late 18th century. The painting is sentimental but I couldn't resist it.

[rowanwitch]

A fossil sharks tooth,  oldest by a few million years,   next oldest probably my great- grandmother's darning mushroom, and pair of Doulton vases.   I have a pretty eclectic mix of  second hand stuff, so some of my things could be older.   The oldest would have been an ammonite fossil but I passed that onto a friend's grandson.

[Chipchopper]

Approx 200 million-year-old  devil's toenails mixed in with some flint pebbles above the fire place, along with the odd ammonite.