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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 521252, member: 78"]Hi,</p><p> Looks like a nice box. When things were marked foreign it was to get them imported into a country not exported. Sometimes it took years to get over things. I remember once I brought a Japanese friend to visit my Grandmother. She was very social and polite but when we were leaving she tossed my friend's cup and saucer into the trash. She said she did the same thing with everything she got that was Japanese since she never got over Pearl Harbor. This was in 1983!!!!!</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 521252, member: 78"]Hi, Looks like a nice box. When things were marked foreign it was to get them imported into a country not exported. Sometimes it took years to get over things. I remember once I brought a Japanese friend to visit my Grandmother. She was very social and polite but when we were leaving she tossed my friend's cup and saucer into the trash. She said she did the same thing with everything she got that was Japanese since she never got over Pearl Harbor. This was in 1983!!!!! greg[/QUOTE]
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