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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 522376" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>OMG! Lisa! I think it's WONDERFUL that a child his age is developing a love and respect for old things! Unusual but wonderful! I was surrounded by things like that growing up and didn't appreciate them one tiny little bit! But then my mother didn't either and a lot of old treasures that I would love to have now are gone. We moved to Florida when I was 11 and she either gave away or left so many beautiful things, including the antique dining room set and the pony-size carved wood rocking horse that was already old when my grandfather played with it in the 1890's! It had a real horse hair mane and tail and a real leather saddle and bridle attached. Gone now! And the cigar boxes were a big part of our childhood! Both grandfathers smoked cigars and we got the boxes to keep our favorite things in. Every kid had a cigar box full of their "treasures" and some of them were real works of art. One thing I do still have is a fancy engraved brushed aluminum cigar box that was a souvenir of the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair. It probably belonged to my great-grandfather because my grandfather was only 14 in 1904. I think they would put the cardboard cigar box inside the aluminum box. We kept our crayons in it as kids so it definitely shows some wear but I love it. Another neat thing I found on eBay, also a souvenir of the Worlds Fair, is a little pocket-sized cigar case made of the same engraved aluminum. It opens like a glasses case but has indents in it to hold three cigars. A gentleman could put three cigars in it when he was going out and slip it into his coat pocket to protect the cigars. Not much call for those today! Darrin is a very perceptive little boy for one so young and it's wonderful that his curiosity has been awakened.</p><p></p><p>Your post reminded me so much of my grandma too! They lived in a very old house, the house my dad and his siblings grew up in, and it was filled to the brim with all their old treasures because of my grandma, the packrat! It's funny the things you remember. My grandfather also smoked a pipe and there was always a big can of "Half and Half" pipe tobacco on the table right next to the chair he always sat in. Believe it or not, I found one of those old tobacco cans in an antique store, brought it home, and put it on my shelf that goes all the way across my kitchen, the one full of old kitchen things and household items. My brother spotted it up there on the shelf and almost cried! He just looked at it and was instantly transported back to our grandparents house in his mind. You just can't see that tobacco can without picturing my grandfather sitting right next to it, listening to the ballgames on his old console radio and smoking his pipe!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 522376, member: 1883"] OMG! Lisa! I think it's WONDERFUL that a child his age is developing a love and respect for old things! Unusual but wonderful! I was surrounded by things like that growing up and didn't appreciate them one tiny little bit! But then my mother didn't either and a lot of old treasures that I would love to have now are gone. We moved to Florida when I was 11 and she either gave away or left so many beautiful things, including the antique dining room set and the pony-size carved wood rocking horse that was already old when my grandfather played with it in the 1890's! It had a real horse hair mane and tail and a real leather saddle and bridle attached. Gone now! And the cigar boxes were a big part of our childhood! Both grandfathers smoked cigars and we got the boxes to keep our favorite things in. Every kid had a cigar box full of their "treasures" and some of them were real works of art. One thing I do still have is a fancy engraved brushed aluminum cigar box that was a souvenir of the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair. It probably belonged to my great-grandfather because my grandfather was only 14 in 1904. I think they would put the cardboard cigar box inside the aluminum box. We kept our crayons in it as kids so it definitely shows some wear but I love it. Another neat thing I found on eBay, also a souvenir of the Worlds Fair, is a little pocket-sized cigar case made of the same engraved aluminum. It opens like a glasses case but has indents in it to hold three cigars. A gentleman could put three cigars in it when he was going out and slip it into his coat pocket to protect the cigars. Not much call for those today! Darrin is a very perceptive little boy for one so young and it's wonderful that his curiosity has been awakened. Your post reminded me so much of my grandma too! They lived in a very old house, the house my dad and his siblings grew up in, and it was filled to the brim with all their old treasures because of my grandma, the packrat! It's funny the things you remember. My grandfather also smoked a pipe and there was always a big can of "Half and Half" pipe tobacco on the table right next to the chair he always sat in. Believe it or not, I found one of those old tobacco cans in an antique store, brought it home, and put it on my shelf that goes all the way across my kitchen, the one full of old kitchen things and household items. My brother spotted it up there on the shelf and almost cried! He just looked at it and was instantly transported back to our grandparents house in his mind. You just can't see that tobacco can without picturing my grandfather sitting right next to it, listening to the ballgames on his old console radio and smoking his pipe! [/QUOTE]
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