Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;morgen94, post: 80314, member: 217&quot;]Two small contributions here...</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is this small Christmas pudding card I found at a local estate sale (in NJ). I think I will make the scan of it into a Christmas card, then will likely offer it to the general public on the POD site where I have a store. In the event I do that, I would like to get the story straight about the charms. I assume they were baked into a Christmas pudding, whatever that is, then served (on Christmas Day?) and if you got one of these charms in your serving, you were assured of the fate that they heralded--including the trip to the dentist. Is that correct? Did you get to keep the charm AND the broken tooth? Because of the font, I am guessing they are from the 1920&#039;s...or 1930&#039;s. Do you agree?</p><p><br /></p><p>Re the unfortunate trashed war letters, I found a shoebox full of WWII letters and photos, too, at an estate sale, but I was allowed to buy them. The sale was at the home of the woman the letter writer married when he returned from Alaska, but the marriage was short-lived. He was older when they married and was apparently a very nice man, so his letters were pretty sanitary. They were also censored and anything that might lift a reader&#039;s eyebrows was written in shorthand. Because of his having been stationed in the Aleutians, I thought there was enough historic significance to warrant posting on a related site a lightly edited transcription of the letters. I kept the bulk of the content of the transcription pretty much focused on the non-personal stuff. I was happy to learn that children from his second marriage found the transcription and were (apparently) delighted to see the many photos and read the letters of their father&#039;s war years, of which they knew virtually nothing. I then donated the letters to an AK collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]20503[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in