Show your oldest tool...

[zapataco]

My Oldest tool...

 

[lilredex]

Probably my oldest, my grandfather's caliper.

 

[RTM]

What are some of your oldest tools ?

I was thinking about what the oldest tools I have might be, and i thought it could be a cool thread to see what people have. I have an Angle gauge from Darling Brown and Sharpe, which i think places it in the 1870-1890 range. I also have a pair of scissors with an 1866 patent date.

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[Beerhippie]

My Oldest tool...

I was going to post another lithic! Saves me having to drive home....

 

[zapataco]

This is my favorite...1850

 

[HalfTonTom]

My tool is pretty old, but I only show it to my wife and my doctors.

 

[The Bean]

This is my favorite...1850

Arguably still the best hand saw money can buy. Got a few of 'em myself.

 

[The Bean]

From my grandfather. If it's not the oldest tool I have, it's certainly the coolest.

 

[bonneyman]

My Oldest tool...

Cool discus! I bet that'd take out a prey animal at 50 yards!

 

[Jr5]

(Thought I posted it but I can’t see it)

My grandfathers Circ. I said I’m probably twice his size and weight. Not sure how that skinny little dude held this thing with in one hand and did roofing. It just occurred to me I’m a ballerina

 

[DAustin]

My Oldest tool...

I've got a neanderthal hand axe., does that count?

 

[MShaw]

My oldest. A Chrome X Quality 25/32 socket, 1/2" drive that AA says was manufactured between 1936 and 1939.

 

[Beerhippie]

Here's a chisel made of argillite, probably by the Haida of the NW coast as I found it on a beach in what were then called the Queen Charlotte islands (now Haida Gwai):





Argillite is a very soft slate--lightly metamorphosed mudstone. It was popular (and still is) with the NW coast folks for tools and carvings. This chisel has been rounded from a century or so of rolling around in the surf, but still shows the distinctive form of the NW coast abraded chisels.

The Haida were famous for their ocean-going giant canoes and probably their best-known invention, the Haida bed

 

[WisJim]

@Beerhippie
Groan......

 

[FoxFire82]

 

[wrench136]

Orrin Edgerton moulding plane. First documented planemaker working in Buffalo, N.Y. between 1836-47.

 

[Provincial]

Cold Chisel found at the local Restore. Central Pacific Railroad, which was the Western end of the Transcontinental Railroad. CPRR was absorbed by Southern Pacific in 1880, so the chisel has to be older than that.