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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;patd8643, post: 403745, member: 5195&quot;]So many familiar stories.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never considered myself a collector, just a holder for future generations sort of like a custodian.</p><p><br /></p><p>About 75 years ago my grandma, mother and aunts would go antiquing for a day and I got dragged along with a quarter to buy a &#039;treasure.&#039;&nbsp; My very first treasures were very fine/thin Japanese blue &amp; white china with a howo bird or rising phoenix.&nbsp; I still have all those pieces I bought years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned soooo much from Grandma.&nbsp; She would buy a chair, take it home and place it where she wanted.&nbsp; Granddad would come in and say &#039;Dora, where did that chair come from?&#039;&nbsp; She would say, &#039;Why Henry, it has been there for years!&#039;&nbsp; Who could say.&nbsp; The house was started in the early 1800s and had been added to many times until it had 12 rooms...but only 1 bathroom which Granddad added.&nbsp; He also connected the brick kitchen to the house making a small office for the business.</p><p><br /></p><p>DH&#039;s family were serious collectors of KY rifles, antique fans and furniture.</p><p><br /></p><p>So as we age, we realize our &#039;kids&#039; won&#039;t have the same love of &#039;old things&#039; that we have had and have begun to lighten the load.&nbsp; The first lot of antique furniture has gone to an estate auction.&nbsp; We have begun clearing the sterling and silver plate, fine crystal, china, etc, but have only made a small dent in it.&nbsp; Hopefully, whoever gets it will be a custodian for future generations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Patd[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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