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The Omeka catalogue was read for this item at the depth it publishes: the Walkerton Digital Library's home page states the archives' classes — "physical objects, postcards, photographs, artifacts, maps, etc." — and states its own limit in the same breath: "Here so far we only are featuring the Central Cut Glass or Walkerton Cut Glass collection items." The one catalogued collection, piece by piece, is therefore the cut glass: the works' surviving product, made 1910–1919 in the factory the society's exhibit documents. At collection size, that is the founding object class of the published catalogue — the first and so far only class the society has accessioned into print — and the oldest dated objects in the town's keeping that the record names are of that class: glass cut in Walkerton in the works' nine years. But the Navarre Cabin form of the question — the single oldest possession, or the object the collection began with — is not answered by anything the catalogue publishes: the item records reached carry no accession dates, no accession order, and no founding gift, and the museum page's wider inventory (photographs of businesses, farming, schools, bands, railroads; oral histories on tape and paper; the newspaper microfilm of 1886–1996) is described, never accessioned in print. One further holdings lead stands at blog strength: the Hoosier State Chronicles blog illustrates a folklore post with mastodon bones found in the Kankakee River near Walkerton, credited "courtesy of the Walkerton Area Historical Society" — the society holds at least the photograph, and the line is printed as a lead only. The oldest possession therefore stands as a named gap: settlers, the society's accession register and its earliest gift records, read at the museum.
Sources: Walkerton Digital Library, home page and Central Cut Glass exhibit, read November 2026 (the featured collection; the classes; no accession data published). Walkerton Heritage Museum page (the photograph and oral-history holdings; the microfilm run, 1886–1996). Hoosier State Chronicles blog, folklore series (the mastodon-bones photograph credit — lead strength). Arts & Culture leg of this build (the cut-glass collection as featured holding).