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Oldest thingy I bought new myself probably is a Nikon F4s, spring 1994. It is the SLR which is so tough it is the only known object which can inflict blunt force trauma Chuck Norris.

Still use it for a reasonably liberal definition of 'use' - I probably ran 15-18 rolls of Tri-X through it last year.

As for used ones, the oldest one by far is a carbon arc lamp made in 1895-1898 or so; my grandfather was an engineer with the local utility company in Aalesund, Norway - and when he began working there in 1943, they still had a few arc lamps in storage which had been used as the first electrical street lights in Aalesund, being installed from 1895 on.

My grandfather, a terrific tinkerer, wanted to crank one up just to see if he could make it work, and was told to just bring a few of them home and play around with them until he tired of it.

I inherited a lamp and the rest of the carbon electrodes. I crank it up a couple of times a year for giggles. Made by Siemens and an absolute work of art.