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Previously on "Oldest Book you own!"
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We've got a 400 million year old plate.
As in something scultped from 400 million year old rock.
It's a black stone with lots of little white bits of fossils in it.
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I also have a 2000 year old coin. That's not worth a lot either! Doh!
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I'm amazed so many people have 400 year old books. Dead impressed.
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To be fair, I do have one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Cost me an absolute arm and a leg. In ancient Hebrew.
When I had it translated, the title was 'When Noah met Sally'.
No idea what it's about?
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I got the original bible, you know the one handed to Moses on tablets of stone.
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This thread got me in a bit of a panic. Thought I might have thrown them away by accident in last big clearout. Anyway, found em.
1 The whole booke of psalmes 1625 (or 1635, unclear)
2 Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae. The workes of that great monarch and glorious martyr King Charles the 1st - About 1650
3 Cary's new itinerary or an accurate delineation of the great roads, both direct and cross throughout England and Wales 1819
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Originally posted by expat View PostI have a copy of Euclid's Elements. 2300 years old, with the additional advantage that the content is true.
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostGot a small book of Psalms 1624, some bit later thing in praise of Charles II and an early Victorian travel book. Can't give any details as up in attic somewhere.
As I had it rebound in vellum, it should last a good few hundred years more.
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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostGot to be a bible. I mean it was written 2000 years ago.
Originally posted by moorfield View PostI own a copy of the Bible. That's quite old, 2000 yrs at least I think.
And it wasn't written 2000 years ago.Last edited by NickFitz; 27 March 2010, 05:00.
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