[chronicles]

I remember those elephants well. Many of my fellow military wives had them and I wanted one myself. It is just as well that I didn’t get it because nothing breakable survived my youngest son for long.

However, we did get a Sansui stereo and a couple of those large brass candlesticks that still exist to this day. Actually, our son the former “destroyer” is 45 yrs old and has the stereo.

[rlmorel]

LOL...do we know each other? We had those "candlesticks" too...I think they were some kind of brass Japanese funeral things...:)

[Teflonic]

My Dad was a Marine sergeant in Vietnam and sent my Mom a full set of Noritaki bone china dishes and glasses, she gave them to me years ago but they are too fine to use. Here's the bamboo pattern: