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Title: Anyone read chinese?
Post by: BashLad on Friday 21 November 14 19:07 GMT (UK)
My great-granddad brought these pictures back from china with these written on. I've always wondered what they said.
Title: Re: Anyone read chinese?
Post by: john from yick on Friday 21 November 14 20:56 GMT (UK)
try the local chippy
                john
Title: Re: Anyone read chinese?
Post by: NgLiuYin on Sunday 20 December 20 16:26 GMT (UK)
The first picture is a note from the gift giver.  It roughly translates to:

Mr. Thomas,
Please enjoy.
From the Republic of China.
Li Sin Textile (?) Company

The second is the gift itself, a poem.
Title: Re: Anyone read chinese?
Post by: BashLad on Sunday 20 December 20 19:14 GMT (UK)
Quote from: NgLiuYin on Sunday 20 December 20 16:26 GMT (UK)
The first picture is a note from the gift giver.  It roughly translates to:

Mr. Thomas,
Please enjoy.
From the Republic of China.
Li Sin Textile (?) Company

The second is the gift itself, a poem.
Haha, you've just made my day; I posted this 6 years ago. Thank you very much.

My great-grandfather, George Thomas, was an industrial chemist who worked in the textile industry and travelled all over; 1921-1925 he was in China helping set up factories, I assume, bleaching fabric.

Before he left the workers were supposed to have given him a two-piece silver plaque and these two pictures.