Sorry, that was awkward wording. I meant that these mundane objects are significant now because they are hundreds of years old in a country (US) where the vast

Sorry, that was awkward wording. I meant that these mundane objects are significant now because they are hundreds of years old in a country (US) where the vast majority of houses are at most several hundred years old, cars last a few decades, and our most common objects like cell phones and laptops get cycled through almost annually.