Friday, July 26, 2019

Small Piece of History...

This morning, I was carefully removing the hinges from the bathroom doorway so I can refurbish them.  While removing the bottom hinge (these are original hinges, by the way), I noticed it wasn't positioned in the mortise, but, rather, slightly above it.  After removing the hinge, there seemed to be a piece of paper being used to shim the hinge. But upon carefully removing the paper, I noticed it was three layers of paper, plus a piece of very thin cardboard.

Immediately, I noticed handwriting and plain as could be, the name "Zirkel".  It was a post card letter from 1958. It's the first historical proof within these walls I have found of who has lived in our home.





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