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Message:: [QUOTE="Firemandk, post: 1448027, member: 7258"]Very nice tray and it sparked a good memory ! I had a neighbor , Mrs. Smythe,  who was in China in the 1920's , had a friend , GR Davis , a Methodist Missionary who had been in the Siege at the  legation compound during the Boxer Rebellion : anyway , she had some of his things, one was a tray like this and a Russian Samovar and she would make us kids tea on a rainy day and we would look at her collection of Indian Baskets ( her father was a geologist in Arizona /New Mexico  in the 1880's) and read her National Geographic collection , 1899 and up ! Wonderful woman , great stories , alzheimer's got her and at 86 she passed away , when I was 16. She gave me GR Davis's Table medal given to him by the British Government....it always made me feel very special she thought that highly of me  to give it  to me and I am it's caretaker still... Makes "55 days at Peking" all the more entertaining knowing I have a real piece of the History of China and the Boxer rebellion. I don't know if any of you saw the article about the Chinese Government  in the last year destroying the ethnic Muslim cemeteries , but GR Davis died in 1926 and in the 1960's the English Cemetery where he was buried in China was destroyed by the Red Guard .... History repeating itself again ....[/QUOTE]