virtual memorials for inanimate objects
  • Blue Bird Brooch

  • Tuesday, June 12, 2007
      Blue Bird Brooch

    When my father's paternal grandmother passed away, each of her great-grandchildren (there were 5 of us at the time) received a gift bought with money "from" her. I don't know what my two male cousins got, but my brother was given a dog clock (with moving eyes), my sister received a necklace (as far as Mum can remember), and I was given (supposedly, as I was very young and have no recollection of the said item) a name-bar brooch with a blue bird on it. I do not even know if it was engraved. I can only suppose it may have been lost when we moved shortly after I turned 4.

    Last seen (but not by me!) 1966-69 (at a rough guess), between Bayswater and East Kew, Victoria.

    Judith Martin, Victoria, Australia

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