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My great-grandfather's pocket watch

 

Icía Fernández Ferreiro · 18 diciembre 2020 17:13


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This object is related to the Spanish Civil Post-War, around the 40s of the XX century.

Explanation of the object
This watch belonged to my great-grandfather (Manuel Fernández Tuero, 1910-1972) and my great-grandmother (Dolores López García) gave it to my dad several years after he died.

She did it because my dad is a bag-piper and when he plays the bag-pipe he wears the tradicional clothes (relates to the end of the XIX century) and a pocket watch. Until she gave it to him, he carried a modern pocket watch. She thought that he will be excited receiving the gift.

This pocket watch relates to some years after the Industrial Revolution. In the Industrial Revolution the watch was an expensive object and few people can bought one. My great-grandafather belonged to the middle class, he wasn't a labourer (he worked as a street sweeper) and my great-grandmother worked as a housewife in their house. They lived in a rent apartment.

This is a silver winding ("de corda") pocket watch and it's engraved at the back with color. It has arabic numbers and a small sphere in the watch face that shows the seconds ("segundeiro"). The watch brand is "ZEDA WATCH" (we can see it in its watch face). Nowadays, it has a silver chain that has about twenty one years.

We don't know the actual monetary value, but it has a very big sentimental value because it had been in the family about one hundred years.

As an anecdote, my dad carried this pocket watch when he got married.

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Ferrameneta de canteiro.

 

Inés Martínez Antelo · 28 noviembre 2021 22:06


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Estas ferramentas foron mercadas polo meu bisavó cando era novo, aorredor de 1920.

Explanation of the object
Estas ferramentas foron mercadas polo meu bisavó Ramón na súa mocidade cando estaba comezando co oficio de canteiro. Estas, acompañarnno durante toda a súa vida laboral, xa que cando se gastaban ía a apuntalas nun ferriro pero nunca comprou unhas novas e nunca desempeñou ningún outro oficio que non fose o da cantería.
Con estos intrumentos picabase e pulíase a pedra que sería máis tarde empregadar par construir horreos, píos e ata casas; de feito, a maior parte das pedras que compoñen as casas da vila do meu bisavó e da miña avóa na actualidade, foron traballadas por el e os seus obreiros, e séguense a conservar en boas condicións ata hoxe en día.
A cerca da orixe das ferramentas non podo dicir que a coñeza, pero a miña avóa afirmoume que non deberon de ser moi caras xa que este traballo só era pagado con apenas uns cuantos reales, polo que non era posible invertir moitos cartos nestes utensilios.

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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_español

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Primera cámara analógica de la familia.

 

Carolina Díaz Oíza · 10 noviembre 2022 14:25


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La cámara es de mediados del siglo XX, sobre los años 1950 y 1960. Es posterior a la segunda guerra mundial.

Explanation of the object
El objeto pertenecía al padre de mi madre, que falleció a los 7 años de ella. Tiene un valor patrimonial ya que con la cámara realizaba fotos de la familia y de la vida en la época. Fotos que en la actualidad seguimos teniendo y con las cuales las personas que se ven en la foto, como puede ser mi madre, puede rememorar los momentos; y los que no aparecemos, conocer algo más . Además tiene valor histórico porque es uno de los primeros modelos de cámaras analógicas que tenían las familias en ese momento.

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Aztec table

 

Nicolás Collazo Santamaría · 8 noviembre 2022 18:30


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My parents bought this table in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on the summer of 2007. It is a replica of a engraved in the Piramide de Kukulcan, the most famous pyramid in Chichen Itza. This ruin was built in the 12th century by the mayans in the ancient city of Chichen Itza. Inside the important mayan buildings there are a lot of engravements made by mayans telling stories about deities and historical important moments.

Explanation of the object
This is a ceramic table, it is a replica of a mayan engraved. In the table appears Pacal's tombstone, the legend tells that when Pacal died he felt in the jaws of an infernal monster, mayans thought that Pacal is like the sunset, his soul ascend to the heaven to continue his cosmic cicle. The cross of the back represents the Ceiba sacred tree, with roots in the hell and branches to the heaven, where there is a bird-snake to guide him in his eternal journey.

This table was made by hand, and my parents love it so they decided to bought it on their holidays in Mexico

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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chich%C3%A9n_Itz%C3%A1#:~:text=Los%20m%C3%BAltiples%20y%20monumentales%20edificios,culmina%20en%20un%20templo%20rectangular.

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O recordo da emigración

 

Samuel Bernárdez Fresco · 11 noviembre 2022 17:00


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1982, foi a fecha na que o meu avo emigrou a Suiza por traballo, 1987, cando a miña avoa emigrou a xunta do meu avo a Suiza, quedando a miña nai e o meu tío ca súa avoa en Galicia.
10 anos despois da data na que marchou o meu avó a Suiza, comprouna tras a súa chegada a Galicia de novo.

Explanation of the object
Esta moto é unha vespino SUZUKI MAXI 50 que comezou a súa comercialización entre o 1992 e o 1996, foi mercada nun concesionario da provincia de Pontevedra, que na época vendía moito.
A vespino SUZUKI Maxi, foi a primeira vespino da marca Suzuki en España, creada en 1992.

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