Sunday morning, after I got off of work, I went over to my parents' house for breakfast. My mom had brought out this really old brown box that she had re-found while they were moving that she wanted to show me. Inside the box was all these old letters, cards, old school newspapers and other things that my Great Grandma (on my dad's side) had kept from her youth. Many of the letters were actually letters to and from the man she would eventually marry, many before they even started seeing each other more than just friends. My mom, dad and I started talking about how we should get them all organized and in order and create a scrap book showing the progression of their relationship through their letters to each other. The earliest one I have found so far was dated July 14, 1919 but I've only been through the first little box of letters that was in the big box.
Besides the letters, there's many very interesting items like an old fold up calender called "Sweet Posies Calenden for 1908" its a Davidson Bros., London calender that was printed in Germany. Its beautiful but very fragile. There's also a "Little Cook's Pastry Set" which is only missing its recipe book but still is in its original box. Something else that is really neat is this little crocheted peice that has an actual chicken wishbone that was crocheted into the peice. There's also an album that she put together of a bunch of cards and post cards that she had received from friends and I have to say that I've been seen as beautiful cards and post cards as some that are in this album. There's even an old accounting book of my great grandpas that he used when he was in business college, its called "Wold's New Trial Balance System: The Bookkeeper's Delight." my boyfriend looked through it and he said that accounting was just as confusing in the early 1920s as it is today lol.
Anyways, my mom let me take the whole box home with me and is letting me go through all the letters and put them in order! Its amazing, though she told me that the contents of the box is more important than my life so if I let anything happen to it, I'm dead lol.
Besides the letters, there's many very interesting items like an old fold up calender called "Sweet Posies Calenden for 1908" its a Davidson Bros., London calender that was printed in Germany. Its beautiful but very fragile. There's also a "Little Cook's Pastry Set" which is only missing its recipe book but still is in its original box. Something else that is really neat is this little crocheted peice that has an actual chicken wishbone that was crocheted into the peice. There's also an album that she put together of a bunch of cards and post cards that she had received from friends and I have to say that I've been seen as beautiful cards and post cards as some that are in this album. There's even an old accounting book of my great grandpas that he used when he was in business college, its called "Wold's New Trial Balance System: The Bookkeeper's Delight." my boyfriend looked through it and he said that accounting was just as confusing in the early 1920s as it is today lol.
Anyways, my mom let me take the whole box home with me and is letting me go through all the letters and put them in order! Its amazing, though she told me that the contents of the box is more important than my life so if I let anything happen to it, I'm dead lol.
(Okay - sorry about hijacking the thread..... now back to our regularly scheduled thread.) :lol3:
