This has been a very interesting thread, thanks to everyone for sharing! My Grandfather went to England in early 1918, there was a picture of him standing on the dock in NY with a S&W 1917 in a flap holster with others in his unit. My Grandmother showed me this picture from a box of early to mid 1900's images when I was a teen in the 60's, once she passed I went thru all of what was left of their pictures and half of them that I remembered were missing. My mother was one of those minimalists that got rid of anything that she thought was clutter..Including my collection of baseball cards from 1961 to 1970. I learned from this oversight and I have 3 large cardboard boxes of pictures on a shelf in the basement with a note to my kids "Do not destroy".

jb