Wedding Gifts

In the summer of 2006, Lois had a new asphalt roof put on her house. All the old roofing was thrown into a large dumpster parked next to the house. When Bob arrived for his usual Saturday afternoon in the garden, Lois explained that the reason why there was an old plastic swimming pool and and a broken bicycle in the dumpster, along with all the old roofing, was because she had invited neighbours to use the dumpster as a means of getting rid of their old junk .... and, by the way, she had tossed out some old wedding gifts that had been sitting in the basement for years. An hour later when Lois was picking up branches in another part of the garden, Bob scrambled into the dumpster, and found, under lots of heavy roofing, a small cardboard box containing a variety of silver plated candy and serving dishes. None was valuable and all were very black. Here is a sample of what they looked like (after they had been cleaned) and here is the note which Lois wrote when she gave each of her four children one of the reclaimed-from-the-dumpster wedding gifts from 1937 (remember, double clicking enlarges).