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<p>[QUOTE="Deacon Ray, post: 3066368, member: 81896"]<font face="Georgia"><font size="4">Great thread, Lord Marc! I wanted to participate but other than ancient coins, I really am not aware of any of my souvenirs and memorabilia being of great antiquity. I am however the trusted curator of some of my families old curiosities that have been handed down from generations past. I have some old silver serving spoons which date back to the 1720's according to one of our local antique specialists. I also have some haunting old tintype photos in folding cases complete with with locks of hair belonging to great-great grandparents and their children who lived in Canada and New England back in the 1800's. The item below is one of the most interesting so I thought that I would share it even though it is not particularly old by ancient coin standards. I can remember this item sitting on my grandfathers roll-top desk since I was a child. He told me that his grandfather (<i>Robert McFarland</i>) who was a teen at the time pulled it from a pile of ash and rubble left by the devastating Boston fire of 1872. <i>Naturally, I felt the necessity to create the poster below.</i></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><i>[ATTACH=full]769738[/ATTACH] </i></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Deacon Ray, post: 3066368, member: 81896"][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=4]Great thread, Lord Marc! I wanted to participate but other than ancient coins, I really am not aware of any of my souvenirs and memorabilia being of great antiquity. I am however the trusted curator of some of my families old curiosities that have been handed down from generations past. I have some old silver serving spoons which date back to the 1720's according to one of our local antique specialists. I also have some haunting old tintype photos in folding cases complete with with locks of hair belonging to great-great grandparents and their children who lived in Canada and New England back in the 1800's. The item below is one of the most interesting so I thought that I would share it even though it is not particularly old by ancient coin standards. I can remember this item sitting on my grandfathers roll-top desk since I was a child. He told me that his grandfather ([I]Robert McFarland[/I]) who was a teen at the time pulled it from a pile of ash and rubble left by the devastating Boston fire of 1872. [I]Naturally, I felt the necessity to create the poster below.[/I] [I][/I] [I][ATTACH=full]769738[/ATTACH] [/I] [I][/I] [I][/I][/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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