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Message:: [QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 198520, member: 602"]Cluttered, the 'wedding gift' idea is a guess.  He COULD have made & given it to my Mom as a gift.....they didn't have the 'proverbial' pot to pee in back then!!! My Dad was a Machinist first (working for a much older brother-in-law learning the trade) and later became a Tool & Die Maker, so I know he would have been capable of it, but I don't think that's my first thought the more I think about it......they married at 19 & 18....would he have had the talent at that age???  But I STRONGLY believe it IS that old, as there is a handwritten note, by me, that I put with it when Mom gave it to me (just don't remember when she gave it to me.....I think when WE were first married), but the note she dictated to me says they (Mom & Dad) got it when they were first married in the late 1930s (precisely 1937!).[/QUOTE]