After coming to a few of these I thought I’d bring in something more personal. This was my grandfather’s briefcase. It’s a hand tooled leather briefcase… [B]ack in the 1950s, this is what you’d get when you retired after I-don’t-know-how-many years with the same company. My grandfather worked for Ford Motor, and hand tooled on this side is the Ford-matic transmission, which he worked on.

This belongs in the Museum of Hero Artifacts or the Museum of Craftwork Not Done Anymore

Exhibited by Vic Fraccaro

Transcript edited by Serena Washington