The oldest thing I own

Here are some of my fossils:

Elrathia Kingi Trilobite



Knightia Eocaena



Pinnixia galliheri



Lower Paleolithic Black Flint Hand Axe (ca. 300,000–40,000 BCE)

 

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While some meteorite are older than earth itself, majority aren't. Gold for example, I think got to earth little less than 4 billion years ago, and earth was formed 4.4 billion years ago?
Mars was there before earth, so fragment of that somehow reached us are older than earth itself.
Down to atomic level, most things are as old as the universe

 

Nice, I have a small Knightia and a petrified crab & turtle, they are all in a box somewhere though. :/

 

@> TIF, and Bing,

Yes, here it is. COPROLITE (Dinosaur 'Poo')


And for those who liked the movie "JAWS" here is a 'MEGALODON' (Ancient Shark) tooth next to a regular shark tooth.

 

ahahaha => great line, Kentucky!!



Ummm, these two babies are probably the oldest things hangin' around my collection closet ...

=> my two sweet scarabs ... 1650-1550 BC

Scarab with Antelope & Palm Branch


Scarab with Two Crocodiles



... pretty cool

 

I can't imagine a home without objects that celebrate the past of life. Here's our mammoth tooth and a stone age artifact (that could link an axe to a shaft), it looks like fossilized bone.
We also have some ammonites and burial urns from a grave field (my father-in-law, a village doctor and an amateur of Things Old, exchanged it with the finder-owner for a comtoise clock).

 

I love the Mammoth Tooth. (Green with envy. If your home gets too small . . . . . .)
My collection only runs to Mammoth hair, (dull and uninteresting, until you play with it and find it hard and 'wiry').

 

When I was a kid, they took us on a tour of an old limestone quarry, then after we went to a pile of rocks to look for fossils, I still have some anyone know what I have and how many million dollars they are worth?

 

Here is my 'Knightia', from Green River, in Wyoming.
(Eocene age - approx:50 MYO.)

 

Both the mammoth tooth and the artifact were found in a sand quarry near the river Rhine (go and look for sand quarries!). The ammonites were bought in Normandy. I once found a stone arrowhead on a rainy morning in the Badlands, South Dakota, the only old thing I ever found myself.

 

The museum I bought it from will make everything from a T Rex tooth to a full dinosaur for $100,000. This kind of replica is what you often see at museums. Really, most people think it's real when they see it. I fact, there are teeth that above the gum line on the top of his skull that you can see or feel. It's beautiful!

The coin I got off of David Sear's website, fwiw.

 

Is that lysi on the floor one of the Carroll Gibson pieces? http://www.davidrsear.com/feature.html

Edit: I just saw your reply

 

What are the Sear plates in? Pewter? Any idea how big the coin type is?

 

They're 10" and painted plaster. I've got the Lysimachos Tet and the Quadriga. They're neat.

http://www.davidrsear.com/feature.html

 

Here's an ammonite from Mexico, given to my father-in-law by a grateful patient.

 

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much for sharing your fossils and artifacts, they are fantastic!

Here is a picture of the fossils and meteorite piece that I have. I could easily see fossil and meteorite collecting become another addiction.

Erin

 

Is that an earwig at the lower left?

 

If you want to be the first at something, just go outside and pick up a stone, crack it open, and you are the very first human out of the estimated 107 billion humans who have ever walked the Earth to see the inside of that stone. Until someone else sees it, you are also the ONLY person who's ever seen the inside of that stone. I know, boring. lol.

 

This thread sure blew up (like the dinosaurs )! Great stuff guys, let's keep it coming

 

@> V.K.
O.K. The oldest (used to be) living thing I own is a 'toss-up' between my 'Trilobyte' and my an 'Orthoceras'. As we have seen some 'Trylobytes', I will show my 400 MYO (polished) "Orthoceras'.
Phyllum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopod
Order: Orthocerida
Family: Orthoceratidae
Genus: Orthoceras
Found: Morocco