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4 plastic menu holders

From the following:
Blue Girl The Premium Beer
Pink menu holder with two gold fish and Chinese character 福 (blessing) Fu (Pinyin)
Yellow menu holder in the shape of a temple with characters 潮州城 (Chiu Chow City, Cantonese) Chao Zhou Cheng (Pinyin)
Tsingtao Beer, in the shape of a fan

7 Chinese soup spoons

One blue willow pattern
2 yellow with flowers
1 bronze with dragon
2 flowered
1 from Susanna Foo restaurant with additional chopstick rest and spoon rest

Clothing items

Pair of new socks with Chinese menu printed on
Ollie's Noodle Shop and Grille hat
Vanessa's Dumplings, NYC, polo shirt
World Record Attempt Most Menus 2005 tshirt
Chinese menu printed pink tie
Chinese take out box printed tshirt
A Million Menus exhibit tshirt, 1991

Eight porcelain tableware items

Purchased from Shanghai Museum gift shop, includes note about provenance from Harley Spiller. Dishes and spoons have price stickers with Chinese writing on them. Includes:
2 raised condiment bowls
2 small blue and white condiment bowls
1 blue and white soup spoon
3 soup spoons with painted flowers

Framed woodwork

Carving of a house (?) and tree branches with brass picture hanger. Customs seal and two stickers on the back with numbers and Chinese characters (possibly a price tag).

Lacquer tiffin boxes

Black lacquer boxes with a floral painted pattern. Contains a note from Spiller with the following information: tiffin boxes were collected by a woman who attended the tiffin in honour of Chinese viceroy Li Hung Chung, possibly on the West coast. Tiffins contain dried coconut, watermelon seeds, and preserved bird's nest.

Matchbooks

Used in the "Million Menus" exhibit, including: Yee Mee Loo, Empire, Len Hing, Chop Suey, Family Garden, Chi Mer, Mr. K, Lucy Jung's, Wo Fat, King Dragon, Hunam.

Matchbooks

Used in the "Million Menus" exhibit, including: Pine Tree, Pearl's, Doriental, Court Hotel, Jeannie's, Chin Lee.

Matchboxes

Used in the "Million Menus" exhibit, including: Cathay House, King Dragon, and 2 Confucius Sez boxes with fortunes.

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