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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Krysten, post: 427987, member: 9103&quot;]My nonna recently passed and left it to me. She was born in 1923 in San Francisco to immigrants from Northern Italy (Piemonte, to be exact). Her parents come over from Italy to SF in 1912. They didn&#039;t have a lot of money (her parents were a seamstress and a cook) so I would be impressed if this is something they brought with them from Italy. That seems rather unlikely. I do have a full spreadsheet of all of the items they brought with them on the ship laying around somewhere that I could go through to be sure, however. My italian is poor so it would take some time. </p><p><br /></p><p>My nonna stayed in the San Francisco Bay Area her entire life. She lived to 95. She was an art dealer in San Francisco in her 20s (the 1940s) and later became a successful real estate agent. She married in 1951 here, to a fairly wealthy man who had long roots in the San Francisco area. It&#039;s possible that this desk came from her mother-in-law, but we really don&#039;t know. Her mother-in-law&#039;s father owned several gold mines in Sierra County, so they came from old money. There&#039;s nothing inside it except for some pictures of me as a child and as an adult, as she had always planned to give this desk to me. She&#039;s been telling me she was leaving it to me since I was very young. There&#039;s also a 1932 edition of Little Women inside of it, but she had a tendency to put books she thought I would like in different places (some with old letters from the late 20s through early 50s inside of them!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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