Many objects have the names of the maker. I thought more a very short story, about your life up to the msking of the object.
Insert the paper in the book. For the trunk, fold the paper, cover with a suitable sized brass plate, a screw in each corner.
Wife also collects pocket watches with verge movements ( made before approx 1720). Some pw nerd made some incredible research about 100 years ago about makers of those watches.
With that book you can still make some exciting watch finds.
An interesting idea. I'm doing something similar in a family history box I'm putting together. Hopefully objects such as these will remain in the family where they have more context, but who can tell.
It occurred to me, while researching the family tree, that everyone has a story to tell and sometimes we only get glimpses of it, mostly through census documents every ten years.
Some of the objects, pictures and documentsI have collected from the last four generations tell a little bit more of those stories but recording some of the actual stories could be a treasure trove further down the generations.
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