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Someday I hope to know the provenance on that letter, other than the translated text. Whatever mi Abuelo knew he took to his grave.

Grandfather's Spanish made Eibar 44mag "1873 Colt"

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Got quite a bit of real funny money.. WWII stuff

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Some real agate marbles.

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Originally Posted by kamo_gari
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Hey now, here's Pancho! That is way cool, dude. Mas, por favor, si tu tienes el tiempo.

That goes for anyone else who cares to share. I dearly love old stuff and the history of objects. I know there are plenty of folks here with lots of crazy stuff of their own. Let's see 'em!
Yes, that is truly exceptional and I can mostly even understand it.!

I will dig out a book as per your request. 1814 printing or such. A very interesting account by a rather famous American of the Revolutionary period.
and one from the 60's of somewhat historical interest. Wish I had the picture of us meeting the subject of that book. Father worked for him.

The second book mentioned was easiest to dig out, therefor first here:

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Signed by the good Dr himself, likely at his institute where the old man worked.

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All I found were a few skulls, with no teeth of course and a femur bone.

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Looks like you found a real treasure trove of well preserved goodies from the good old days. I had a similar microscope outfit and chemistry lab set back in the day.

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Now for the older one. Some (many?) of the folks on here might recognize the dude that wrote it, some may have even read it. Apparently, as I found them in my searches for info on the book, there are paperback copies of it so perhaps somewhere in the halls of academia American History might still be taught?

Ratty cover, perhaps not surprising given it's 200+/- years old?

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Title page, and they knew how to write a title back then, eh? whistle

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And the Introduction:

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I believe, given the current situation of the Country, and the impetus of this thread, that perhaps it is time for my occasional rereading of the words of the good Colonel?


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Very interesting treasures, fellas. Very cool.

Kamo Gari, was your aunt interred at Tulare?

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Cool stuff in here, guys!

These threads make this place worthwhile. smile


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Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Cool stuff in here, guys!

These threads make this place worthwhile. smile

Well, at a minimum tolerable on some days grin


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That is some awesome treasure

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Originally Posted by FatCity67
Someday I hope to know the provenance on that letter, other than the translated text. Whatever mi Abuelo knew he took to his grave.

Grandfather's Spanish made Eibar 44mag "1873 Colt"

Man, what a wonderful family heirloom, Fats.

Barry, those marbles are way cool, and the bills too!

Geno, great stuff. I'll have to look up that EA book and grab a copy. Thanks! You just reminded me of a pair of thick printed books I own, both of which I bought at a yard sale years ago for 5 bucks. They are law books, of all things; two volumes of a three volume set on the Laws of England. The first volume was printed by hand and published in the year 1629. They probably started the thing 10 years earlier... wink

Morewood, yes, five members of my family were locked up or 'interned' if you will, during WWII. My Grandma, grandpa, my dad and his two sisters. Sachi was a baby at the time and my dad was 5. Aya, the eldest child and the one whose belongings I inherited, was 20. Good old EO 9066. My family, along with ~110K others-- with about 2/3 of those being American citizens-- pretty much lost everything they couldn't carry and were first told to report to a co-called assembly center. There were around 15 of those on the west coast.

My family reported to the Santa Anita racetrack as ordered, where they were housed in horse stalls. 'Hey, this isn't a Holiday Inn Express at ALL!' They were then sent to Manzanar, which was one of 11 actual internment camps. That was before being shipped to the Gila River internment desert camp in AZ for almost 3 years. Not very good times for my family, but they stuck it out. Unlike Sachi's future husband's family, who chose to return to Japan, which was an option the US goobermint offered to all that were to be locked up. Their family was returned all right, to a place called Hiroshima. Whoops!

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Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Cool stuff in here, guys!

These threads make this place worthwhile. smile

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Their family was returned all right, to a place called Hiroshima. Whoops!

Whoops?

Yikes is more like it.

I think about that sad part of our history every time I go to the Big Town for a specialist appointment or shopping. Have to pass through Newell, CA, home of the Tule Lake Internment Camp.

Have to go past places where the Modoc War occurred, the road to Canby's Cross commemorating the death of the only General killed in the Indian Wars.

Lotta history around these parts for such an out of the way place.


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I dig old stuff.


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Originally Posted by FatCity67
Someday I hope to know the provenance on that letter, other than the translated text. Whatever mi Abuelo knew he took to his grave.

Grandfather's Spanish made Eibar 44mag "1873 Colt"

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Fats, did you mean to say 44 special???


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Originally Posted by FatCity67
I dig old stuff.


Hahaha!


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A huge injustice to the Japanese Americans living in the USA at the time. Sad chapter.

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Leighton's got some cool old stuff, that's just a little of it.


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