Treasures ? ? ?

[Owlswing]

Going through yet another box of mixed papers of various degrees of non-interest and antiquity I came upon an A3 file of some bulk and weight with no markings to identify the contents.

Curiosity being what it is, especially when you are bored stiff, I opened said file.

Contents?

Approximately 250 full-colour Vargas girls! Printed on relatively high-quality art paper they show a sale price of five shillings each, probable printing date 1973-75!

Oh! Happy Days!

Owlswing

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[Aruntraveller]

Oh - don't talk to me about this subject.

I have a suitcase full of jewellery that I have inherited from my mother, which in turn she got from both her Mum and my Dad's mum.

Most of it is gaudy costume pieces, which have their own "unique" appeal and speak to my paternal grandmothers rather unusual understanding of taste. I am convinced though that amongst all this stuff is something that will make me rich beyond my wildest dreams!

Except every time I get the suitcase out and open it up I am dismayed and deterred from the job of sifting through it all, and I just zip it up and put it back in the cupboard.

[Roses]

I have my father's signet ring displaying our family crest and my maternal grandmother's wedding ring. I had no interest in any other jewellery that had been left to my sisters and myself.

I did claim the pew from a monastery in my home island, which closed in 1952 when I was two. My mother bought it for a fiver, and it sat in our hall throughout my childhood. It has a caving of a medieval king, presumably the one who was around when the monastery was built. The pew is in excellent condition for its age, and the fact that my sisters and I as well as my own children used to sit and play on on it as kids, but were none too careful when doing so. My father had it valued in the 80s, it was worth about £2000 then, I suspect it might be worth a bit more now. I have promised it to our eldest girl when I kick the bucket.

[SteveH]

I've got some old books which are probably worth a bob or two, and a beautiful but not very accurate long-case clock that dates from approx. the second quarter of the 19th Century (William IV or early Victorian).

[Roses]

We had a longcase clock in my childhood home, which had apparently been in the family for a couple of centuries so we were told. I didn't like the noise it made. One of my sisters has it now.