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Memories to my Father III
Posted by Illuci (Hurdegaryp, Netherlands) on 7 September 2007 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.
A picture of me and my father, Winter 1946-1947, taken in Heerlen at the Brunsummer Heide, with a Kodak Brownie, one of the few luxurious things my parents owned at that time. Cheap and simple camera, excellent and crisp B&W pictures, the model disappeared because it wasn't suited for colors. The planes on my suit, knit by my mother, refer to the RAF planes and the loaves-dropping planes in 1945. Next to the photo a travel alarm clock from my father's collection who collected these. Before the photo you see an antique Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) pewter plate showing a relief image of a little girl watching a snail (about 1910). These plates were used by servants to carry visiting-cards of visitors to the host, to announce them while they were waiting in the visitors' room next to the front door (very, very formal). Acquired by my father at an auction.
The pieces are put on top of the old-fashioned oak cylinder desk I use for my pc. My father bought it very cheap in 1970 or so, from a refurbishing police station and restored it.
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