and I love em, full of happy memories of my childhood spent round their house 🙂
a pop up book:
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yep, my veggie friends may be horrified and outraged but he shot the deer in the local woods over 35 years ago, the skin came from Alexandria (I think) whilst he was serving this country. I remember playing with the skin as a little boy as well as my Gran reading the pop up book to me which was quite possibly one of the most magical things I'd ever seen!
I'll miss him/them but its great to have these to remember them by and hopefully one day share with my kids 🙂
here's to you nan & gramp :cheers:
oh the bowler's mine, had that for a while.
I'ts great having these little reminders, I have a some books and a pen knife (which I still use) from my Grandad.
Sod the PC brigade, nice to have those reminders. Love the bowler with the antlers looks very cool.
I'm missing something as don't see anything non-PC?
Wonderful stuff. I have some ivory ornaments from when my grandad was is Africa. You can only treasue these things as a part of history. I would be applaed if someone killed a rare animal for a trophy now - but a skin that is a relic of your grandfathers is a different thing altogether.
So your Halloween costume's sorted then, ay?
sod Eallra H?lgena ?fen! that's my daily night riding clobber!
I hope he left you that carpet as well, that really is fantastic.
Then no wonder the farmers are after night riders: they wanna bag a good skin and trophy!
my daily night riding clobber
Surely "nightly"...? Yours truly, Mr Pedant.
quite right avdave2 he did, its one of two persian(?) rugs 🙂
nice carpet, did he leave that also ?
Good for you!
looks like gramps had an interesting/fulfilled life.
it's not PC to take a trophy of an endangered animal today,but for an another era/memorabilia personal connection is OK.
great pics buy the way.
My grandad left these to my dad and I dug them out when my dad died.
I think they're awesome.
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Link for one of them is here. There's six in total.
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What is non-PC about any of that. You frightened by salad huggers?
oh no, I love to see a well shaken lettuce as much as the next man 😀
My dad has some gollywog figures that he made in the foundry he worked in when we were born, i'll see if i can get some pics of them.
I remember seeing some of the story books my dad and his brothers had in the 1920s - extremely non PC by current standards, although the tone was more patronising than out and out white supremacist bigotry.
Still have one granddad's WW1 billy can and a German bayonet he liberated and use the other granddad's oil can. Used to go fishing in my dad's old Indian army bush hat.
I've got a few things from my Grandad after he sadly passed away a couple of years ago, a nice Daks blazer and raincoat, some lovely gold cufflinks. But possibly the best is the blanket he liberated from a dead japanese soldier (burma campaign) it has a little tag in the corner with japanese script on it.
Sod the PC brigade
Amen to that.
That's a bunch of great stuff. Good on you and on your grandfather. 🙂
hey Sam, my other Grandad served in Burma too, it all sounded a tad, erm, lawless 😛
Really nice! Especially love the pop-up book (and the model engineer book in the later post)
Best get them valued now you've been sacked by Alan Johnstone 😀
(Not that you'd want to sell them, obviously)
I've just ordered an Elephant foot umbrella stand and some gorilla hand ash trays off of the internet. Pure class,
