Top 10 Rare Finds of 11 Nov

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We had a blast finding out just how valuable our dusty documents were. And thanks to our friendly NLB librarians, some of us finally deciphered what that puzzling Chinese manuscript was. There were a lot of surprising finds, but eventually, ten were shortlisted for the first day of the Heritage Road Show.

The 10 Rare Finds (in no particular order) are:

1) Book of Malay Poems 1908

2) Testimonial Letter 1926-39

3) Meeting Agenda 1929

4) Rare Map 1945

5) Classical Malay Literature 1936

6) Aerial Photo 1965

7) Commemorative magazine 1953

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9) Service Certificate 1922

10)Grammar Textbook 1915

You still have one last day to bring your treasures down to the National Library to win up to $10,000 in prizes!

The NLB is looking for PRINT artefacts from the following categories. The older and rarer, the better:

1) Scripts

2) Genealogy records

3) Legal documents

4) Graphical documents

5) Ephemera

6) Publications

I brought down some books belonging to my parents and eagerly watched as the Librarian assessed them:

The library already had copies of these books, published in the 1950s, but they welcomed extra copies. I didn’t walk away empty handed, as I was given an NLB keychain as a memento.

Others though, came with older items.

Like Mr Syed, with his Banana note from WWII:

And this gentleman, with an entire STACK of receipts from the early 1900s:

If you don’t have any old items, there’s still plenty for the whole family to enjoy. You can buy books here on Singapore’s heritage from the Singapore Heritage Society or the Public Education division of NHB.