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<p>[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 228585, member: 121"]Not for nothing (that's my Long Island Italian talking), but my family had scads of this type of thing, and working off of past experience of inherited but then not cared for items, we took the most precious and those with the most historical value and had them reproduced and framed. The originals went to historical societies and museums, we kept the framed copies, and the historical societies and museums paid to have the copies made and framed in exchange. That way we kept the "history alive in the family" and we knew that if someone inherited the copies and tossed them it was no great loss to posterity. </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">I just mentioned this on another thread regarding a letter from Florence Nightingale's mother!</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mansons2005, post: 228585, member: 121"]Not for nothing (that's my Long Island Italian talking), but my family had scads of this type of thing, and working off of past experience of inherited but then not cared for items, we took the most precious and those with the most historical value and had them reproduced and framed. The originals went to historical societies and museums, we kept the framed copies, and the historical societies and museums paid to have the copies made and framed in exchange. That way we kept the "history alive in the family" and we knew that if someone inherited the copies and tossed them it was no great loss to posterity. [SIZE=3]I just mentioned this on another thread regarding a letter from Florence Nightingale's mother![/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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