A small thing that’s turned up among the thousands of objects I need to abandon so that I can move, eventually, to an assisted care facility: a small circular leather box (under 3 inches diameter) with a collection of cufflinks in it. Lovely cufflinks, several sterling silver (including a tiny abacus that works), several with semi-precious stones, all from a long-ago life with my man Jacques. But I haven’t been able to deal with cufflinks for decades, so it’s time to find someone who would actually cherish this collection (the silver needs polishing).
The box is small enough to be not much trouble to mail (within the US) — I could get my grandchild Opal to do this — though if you could pick it up in Palo Alto that would be even better. It would please me, and honor J’s memory, to send it to a good home.
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July 1, 2025 at 6:22 am |
I have no use for cufflinks, but the idea of a cufflink-sized abacus that works intrigues me. I’d think it would require really tiny (or especially dexterous) fingers.
July 1, 2025 at 6:37 am |
You can actually use the abacus with a small pin-like tool.
But the cufflinks are pretty, and some are actually valuable, So I hope to find them a home. (I’m keeping a small number of mementos, but the stock of stuff is far too big for me to keep more than a tiny number.)