I could damn near write a book! I collect old electronic test equipment & computers, as well as old processors/chips. So quite a bit of that. Tools-wise I have quite a few, my favorite few being my great great grandfather’s tap & die set (early 1900s), my 1985 Bridgeport R2E4 C/NC milling machine that I’m restoring, and my 1954 Sheldon lathe!
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The majority of my vinyl collection is more than 20 years old which are predominantly the reggae, funk and soul sections as well as a bunch of misfit classics from 60s-90s. My primary record player is also from the 80s but the rest of the system is pretty modern.
I’ve got a manual coffee grinder that’s turning a hundred in a couple years.
I’ve also got a WWI German infantry saber that’s almost 130 years old.
I've got a copy of the Fannie Farmer cookbook that predates WW2
Loads of vintage shotguns and one from 1895. Recently fixed up my great grandfather's WWI shaving and snakebite kits.