The Heirloom Jewellery

The heirloom jewellery
We pass our jewels over to the next generation, The wedding of any girl is incomplete without her finery of jewellery and clothes, not to forget the diamonds, that are sometime coming down in generation, the silver ware though we never use due to the theft all over we never fail to pass it on to the next generation, knowing well that would house in a new almirah until its further journey..

With all the markings and etching of another day, the thamboolam plate has my grandfather’s name inscribed on it, and my silver plate has my mother shanthi’s name inscribed on it, small hip chain so cute with all those small bells and the kolusu the leg chain and I could go on with each tumblers and small vatis given when the children were born for naming ceremony and so on.

Some children have a passion for the jewellery coming down generations rather than the new pattern and they would rather part with the recent but would never part with old things like the grandfather’s easy chair bringing his image and conversation to the fore, or the study their father had done for them with a writing board attached to swing down to write over, with all their favourite books lined up.

The old wooden almirah may be from Burma when dad traveled all the way shipping it for sentiments, the sliding almirah with so much space you can hide inside in the one section, all had a wonderful workman ship which is missing in these days of things, now all is made with ply and done with.

In those days the Belgian mirror attached to the almirah was considered precious and pricey, can we say the same of the present ones done in tin and painted. Even the godrej locker had a great pride in those days with a thick gauge of steel in it.

The teak and rose wooden furniture, were very costly and dreamy stuff of another day. The good old things rush memories too and take a pride of place in our heart and home. sunkan