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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 110928, member: 136&quot;]I don’t think I’ve ever posted a “find” to the “finds” thread here, since I’ve been in downsizing mode for so long…</p><p><br /></p><p>I just found something, however – in my own home – that I thought was pretty neat, so I figured I might as well join the thread as a “finder”!</p><p><br /></p><p>This was at the bottom of my childhood sewing box, and I found it today while searching everywhere for a particular shade of thread that I needed for a project.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a note inside it, indicating that it was given to my mom by “Jim”, a WW2 penpal. (Mom had at least a dozen of them – penpals, I mean – she was in her mid-teens during the war &amp; apparently wrote to a bunch of the boys from back home.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, what I found was a cool leather sewing kit, shown here:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]27903[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]27904[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]27905[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]27906[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this July 24, 1943 reference from <i>Billboard Magazine</i> (via Google Books):</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="3">Belsic Products is offering a still more expansive kit or billfold that fits in with the times. It not only holds cards, papers and money but has needed personal items such as pins, needles, and thread. The idea is based on needs of men and women in the services, but people everywhere are finding it practical. It comes in different styles.</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Google Images has photos of lots of <i>different</i> sewing kits, but this one, from Worthpoint, is closest:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/authentic-belsic-leather-ww2-ii-air-440933948" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/authentic-belsic-leather-ww2-ii-air-440933948" rel="nofollow">http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/authentic-belsic-leather-ww2-ii-air-440933948</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is about the same as mine, except with an Air Force logo (and more contents remaining inside):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]27907[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s nothing monetarily valuable, but it&#039;s the sort of little thing I find special.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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