#journey

 

Museum item: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Landscape from Italy, 1834.

Digital item: Toy of English Guard

Donor of digital item: Nevenka Jevtović*

Note from donor:

In 1970 in a shop close to Buckingham Palace I bought an English Guard toy souvenir. This is the first present I bought in England for my mother, the late Milica Dragićević from Kruševac.

Mum was so happy with her present that it eventually had its own special place in her display cabinet amongst other trinkets I brought her from my later travels.

Mother Milica never opened the box in case she damaged its contents, and with such joy would talk about that period of my life when I lived overseas as a student, as if she had herself experienced it.

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*For more stories from the Jevtović family scan the following items: