Stationery from my grandad's country town general store. It dates back to the 1960's as you can see from the 196 prefix to which you can add the year. I found a wad of these pages whilst sorting through some boxes recently. There are 29 precious sheets of it, which I have absolutely no idea what to do with. My mum also has some, as does my sister. I can remember drawing on the paper when I was a child with a giant pencil (do you remember those?). I don't want to waste the stationery, but then I don't want to just file it away and forget about it again. Maybe I will frame a sheet.
My mum came over a few weeks ago to spend the day with me and with her she brought this little metal belt. She was no sooner in the door and I had it clasped around my waist. Mum remembers being given the belt when she was in her teens, and thinks it belonged to her Nanna Olive before her. I can remember the belt as a child also but it has a long time since I had seen it. It is very scratched but not tarnished so I'm not sure what metal it is made of. I need to lose a tiny bit of weight as it just fits me. In sitting and 'after meal' situations it is really uncomfortable (metal is not forgiving). I'm told that it is 'on loan', maybe indefinitely mum?
ps. I just noticed that the stationery says W. Gardner yet my grandad's first name was Henry (middle name William). I can never remember anyone calling him by his first name, ever. It was always Bill, Will or Willy. It was quite common back then to call someone by their middle name, I just wonder why?
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How wonderful to find these! What a lovely name your Grandfather had (my son's name is Henry)!!! I think definitely frame, perhaps with a lovely b&w photo of him on the paper somewhere???
ReplyDeleteYou may never know the middle name thing, but as to the paper...have someone you know sketch something memorable on it and then frame it! :-) ... By the way, cute belt too!
ReplyDeleteI luv my paper too & not sure what to do with it either.
ReplyDeleteI love the stationery. Can you make some high-quality colour copies of it to keep using? Perhaps save some of the original.
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Maybe use a sheet of the stationary as the background and put a photo of him in the middle? That is so true about them using their middle names back then, my Dads name is Robert but everyone has always called him Graeme which is his middle name. Even when he met my Mum he said his name was Robert and she didnt find out his real name for months!
ReplyDeletewhat a neat bit of family history. i love the colors and design, i say get a local print shop to make a bunch of journals for you with a similar blue(of the bottle) canvas cover, maybe a few in your shop for the rest of us too ; )
ReplyDeletegreat belt too!
So lovely to have pieces of your loved ones pasts
ReplyDeleteI so get this. i have some of my Grandmothers little stiched name tags from when she named her clothes when she went on cruise ships in the 1950's and 60's. What to do with them?? So special. I like the idea of framing a sheet with a photo or other momentos, cheers Katherine ps Happy Easter
ReplyDeleteI blow up the stationary header to a large size and frame it! It would look so great! I wish we still had the ads from my grandparents old gas station....you are lucky!
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