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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 329396, member: 29"]Let's add some history to this. 1940. Our darkest year of the war, but the beginning of hope. </p><p><br /></p><p>This probably travelled on a convoy ship across the Atlantic, Uboats circling the lot. It would have been made and sold to get desperately needed dollars: Britain was about bankrupt when the war ended. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, this wee thing. Made in a city devastated by the Blitz, shipped by merchant ships who faced horrendous dangers and ended up in the US, bought by someone who thought it pretty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 329396, member: 29"]Let's add some history to this. 1940. Our darkest year of the war, but the beginning of hope. This probably travelled on a convoy ship across the Atlantic, Uboats circling the lot. It would have been made and sold to get desperately needed dollars: Britain was about bankrupt when the war ended. So, this wee thing. Made in a city devastated by the Blitz, shipped by merchant ships who faced horrendous dangers and ended up in the US, bought by someone who thought it pretty.[/QUOTE]
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