My mothers father died before I was born, so I never new him, and had only heard about him and seen his picture. For some reason my mother never talked about him much, and she seemed to have been estranged from both her parents and her own brother, so I never got to find out too much about that side of my family.
After my mom and dad died, my dad was last about 15 years ago, we brought back many boxes of personal papers and stuff. I had thought we went through most of it, but when getting the Christmas stuff down form the crawl space, I came across a box that didn't look familiar to me. There was some electrical lamp stuff on top, but underneath there were quite few envelopes, and folders and such. One of the items was a small 7x10 loose leaf binder that had about 12 sheets of paper in it that had all come loose from the rings. The paper looked old and had a lot of typewritten small papers glued onto them, and a few had written ones too. The small papers had little poems or rhymes on them that were written or typed by my moms father. I never heard her mention anything about this, but the fact that she kept it must have shown that it meant something to her. All the little poems are signed with his initials, or name, and are dated 1919/1920. Most of them are just cute little verses, but one of them caught my eye as i saw the words "Tuxedo pipe tobacco". So I took a pic to post here, with an old roached out tobacco tin I got cheap on ebay, along with a pipe that's probably a little newer that the writings, but still looked appropriate.
About the pipe: this old Kaywoodie was recently gifted to me from generous forum member Tim (rsuninv). It's a really cool old Kaywoodie panel pipe with a push tenon and a drinkless 4 hole stinger. I think it's probably from the late 1920s. I think some of the top of the bowl is missing and it needed a little clean up and finishing on the stem and bowl top. I just thought it looked about right for the little verse and the tobacco tin. I did some research, and Tuxedo tobacco was advertised in the early 1900s and had many sports and public figures in the ads, including Ty Cobb. It did come in little glass jars, but to find one that's affordable now is pretty hard so I went with the old tin.
Hopefully I'll find some more things out about the grandfather I never new, as there seems to be some info on family history I found too. This was all gathered by my mom years ago, long before Ancestry.com. I think I've got my work cut out for me now....
After my mom and dad died, my dad was last about 15 years ago, we brought back many boxes of personal papers and stuff. I had thought we went through most of it, but when getting the Christmas stuff down form the crawl space, I came across a box that didn't look familiar to me. There was some electrical lamp stuff on top, but underneath there were quite few envelopes, and folders and such. One of the items was a small 7x10 loose leaf binder that had about 12 sheets of paper in it that had all come loose from the rings. The paper looked old and had a lot of typewritten small papers glued onto them, and a few had written ones too. The small papers had little poems or rhymes on them that were written or typed by my moms father. I never heard her mention anything about this, but the fact that she kept it must have shown that it meant something to her. All the little poems are signed with his initials, or name, and are dated 1919/1920. Most of them are just cute little verses, but one of them caught my eye as i saw the words "Tuxedo pipe tobacco". So I took a pic to post here, with an old roached out tobacco tin I got cheap on ebay, along with a pipe that's probably a little newer that the writings, but still looked appropriate.
About the pipe: this old Kaywoodie was recently gifted to me from generous forum member Tim (rsuninv). It's a really cool old Kaywoodie panel pipe with a push tenon and a drinkless 4 hole stinger. I think it's probably from the late 1920s. I think some of the top of the bowl is missing and it needed a little clean up and finishing on the stem and bowl top. I just thought it looked about right for the little verse and the tobacco tin. I did some research, and Tuxedo tobacco was advertised in the early 1900s and had many sports and public figures in the ads, including Ty Cobb. It did come in little glass jars, but to find one that's affordable now is pretty hard so I went with the old tin.
Hopefully I'll find some more things out about the grandfather I never new, as there seems to be some info on family history I found too. This was all gathered by my mom years ago, long before Ancestry.com. I think I've got my work cut out for me now....
