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Rikibeth: My mother has a very similar connection to her set of the "My Book House" series. She inherited it from her father, whose mother, like your grandmother, bought it in time payments during the Depression. Their family valued the books so highly that my grandfather, as a child, was not allowed to touch them without first washing his hands. My mother always loved the way the stories in that series were told, and the look of the finely printed illustrations.

I myself am very attached to a bust of Beethoven--the color of bronze but apparently some sort of plastic--that I also inherited from my mother's father. As a child, it stood on a record player in a dark back room of my grandfather's house, and used to terrify me. He just looks very grim, Beethoven does.

My best guess, assuming it isn't about something more sinister, as has been suggested: a dunsail is the kind of sail Lord Dunsany used. It is (some people might say) unnecessarily ornate, but it is very pretty.

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