A few weeks ago I found a gift given to me by one of my students going back some 50 years ago. Herby VanDongen was a pleasant lad and his father made these cuff links which Herby gave me. I must confess that I have never owned a shirt which used cuff links and I’m guessing that most people these days would not know what cuff links are/were used for.
I thought I would look up Herby and find out what he has been doing over the past 50 years. I found Herby in the White Pages and gave him a call. He is a successful business owner running an agricultural machinery business. I am going to visit his business this Friday.
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The coins used in the cuff links are a Sixpence and a Threepence. In the days of non- decimal currency, such coins had names. The sixpence was called a Zac and the threepence (thrupence) was called a Tray.
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