#furoku

i was helping my mother sort her yarn collection to throw out 4/5 of it when i randomly found this old "gentleman's alliance cross" furoku watch, haha. background info: my mother is a hoarder* and she used to sometimes pick up stuff i'd thrown away and keep it and hide it because she thought i was being "wasteful". i'm throwing it away now, but here are some photos if anyone is curious. having "real items" furoku is normal now, but this was back when furoku was transitioning from paper items to "real" things chiefly made out of plastic, and this would have been a highly hyped item. interesting from a manga magazine history perspective. you can see an image of the box here. another interesting thing is that these "real" items have basically zero worth now, while paper furoku of meiji-taisho-showa are still valued by collectors. this is a beautiful book about that.