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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 375763, member: 12789&quot;]Some people place no sentimental value on stuff like this.&nbsp; I saw a guy at a coin show selling stamped covers that were used to send letters from his father to his mother during WWI, and this was then something like 70 years after the war had ended.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday at auction I bid on and won a WWI Memorial plaque that was made for the family of a British soldier killed during WWI, it has his name on it and should still be with his family, but evidently someone didn&#039;t want it anymore and cast it off to be sold at public auction.&nbsp; I bought it, because the plaques are large CD-Rom sized medals that have the soldiers name on them and were sent by the Admiralty to the soldiers survivors, wives, parents etc.&nbsp; Many people did not like getting them, and they were referred to as &quot;death pennies&quot;.&nbsp; I will keep this piece in memory of this long ago otherwise forgotten by his family and his country WWI hero.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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