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Message:: [QUOTE="Joan, post: 9593209, member: 5398"]The rest of the story is that my brother-in-law was standing around with some other regular customers and the volunteer clerk (all ladies) and they were all looking at the box, but the other customers weren't interested in buying it so my BIL said he'd take it. The clerk put a spur of the moment price on it we think because my BIL is kind of a favorite customer and she wanted him to have it. When he got home he gave it to my sister and she put it away since she was going to be getting ready to have their 50-year accumulation of antiques/junk/household stuff sold (they had moved in with their son and DIL). I helped her sort and organize some of their hoard and asked her where she put the sewing box, but she couldn't remember. We looked all over the house and couldn't find it and came to the conclusion that her husband might have put it in some obscure place since his dementia was getting to be more of a problem (and he had a tendency to occasionally do that with other objects). But a few weeks ago, my sister called to tell me she found it where she now remembered putting it, inside a duffle bag in a drawer. She was going to sell it in one of the 3 or 4 remaining auctions, but decided to keep it for a while.[/QUOTE]