Used as a kind of a diary , this old Queensland Government Railways notebook contains interesting details of important events , presents given and received , and costs 70 and more years ago .
It appears to have been kept by a girl who on her 18th birthday in l952 was given a necklace and ear rings by a person called Des ; he followed up with a compact set-lipstick, rouge and powder- at Christmas.
He continued to give her presents for her 19th birthday -white hand painted cloth and serviettes - and a crystal water set at Christmas.
In turn, in 1952 , she gave Des a portable clock which cost seven pounds six shillings. For his 25th birthday in 1953 , she gave him a Ronson cigarette lighter bought for four pounds seventeen shillings and threepence.
That Christmas she showered Des with a sports shirt , a wallet and a monogrammed D hanky, for a total outlay of nearly five pounds .
It is not clear what she gave Des for his l954 birthday, but it involved airfreight.
Another list contains more information about the presents she received for her 19th birthday , including from her mother and father and girls at work- a writing case and icing utensils, white briefs, two souvenir sweet dishes , summer pyjamas, chef memo and a box of chocolates , a Bambi ornament and an afternoon tea cloth.
