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           [log in to unmask] "Sally Baulch" writes:

> ...target sheet smacks of commemoration (and don't we all love to hate the
> silly commemorative artifacts that slipped into our collections?)  We
> already have too many commemorative ashtrays, plates, chunks of wood,
> spoons, etc. that take up space. Not many researchers want to see
> commemorative schlock; they are there for the "real" thing.
>
I don't think that commemorative objects are any less real than
any others.  A commemorative plate is made for decoration
(and for the feelings which accompany its purchase), which
I agree, is very different from a dinner plate, made
for household use - but both are real.

My favourite commemorative at Bucks County Museum is a 1977 Queen's
Silver Jublilee brick from Newton Longville brickworks.

--
Patricia Reynolds
Keeper of Social History, Buckinghamshire County Museum / Freelance Curator

16 Gibsons Green
Heelands
Milton Keynes
MK13 7NH
ENGLAND

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