The Queen's quilt: How a royal souvenir hunter struck a deal with Her Majesty — via financialpost Economy
Suluk was around nine years old when the federal government opened a day school in Arviat. Many of the teachers there were good, but a few were otherwise. “Bad seeds,” she recalled. But she survived, and a few months shy of her 70th birthday, the retired educator is a joyful, forward-facing, optimistic person.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the Financial Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“I started collecting anything with an image of the Queen on it after that,” she said, explaining the roots of what, by her best reckoning, is the largest private collection of Queen Elizabeth-themed souvenirs in the Canadian Arctic.Queen Elizabeth died on Sept.
Aside from the sheer ubiquity of Queen-related products, one issue preventing the discerning, well-financed, hypothetical collector from spending significant sums to obtain even rare items associated with Her Majesty is that despite ruling for 70 years and dying at age 96, the items simply aren’t old enough.Advertisement 5Souvenirs of the late Queen Elizabeth II are seen in a window of a shop in Canterbury, in south-east England., following the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Some of those folks were Canadian, and some of those fancy, limed-oak, blue-velvet chairs, numbered and monogrammed with Her Majesty’s initials, returned to Canada with them.Article content
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