One of our runners in Asia who looks for unusual pieces of ephemera for this blog bought this WWll related item in a Thai market , which is a modern reproduction. He also obtained a circa 1920s business card in Chinese and English which then was put on his desk to pass on to us and now it cannot be found. Recently he found the passport he had lost eight months ago in his house , which had cost eight hundred smackers to replace and caused a lot of heartburn . This situation has once again prompted this blogger to attempt to get some order on the desk which is cluttered with notebooks, scraps of paper , folders , accursed biros which don't write, umpteen leaflets and pamphlets kept because they make good book page markers , but sometimes spill onto the floor .
