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A chocolate-filled gift that was handed retired 85 years agone is group to waste astatine auction — and it comes pinch a heartfelt backstory.
Sybil Cook was a nine-year-old woman surviving successful Neath, South Wales, successful 1939 erstwhile her uncle gave her a cocoa Easter egg, arsenic Hansons Auctioneers reported.
With nan gift, Cook’s uncle asked nan young woman to ration the saccharine treat, arsenic "there mightiness not beryllium immoderate cocoa astir soon."
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World War II had arrived successful Britain — and Cook took her uncle’s words very seriously, truthful overmuch truthful that she didn't return a azygous wound of nan cocoa ovum for nan remainder of her life.
When Cook died successful 2021 astatine property 91, nan blue-and-white insubstantial was still afloat wrapped astir nan cocoa egg, according to Hansons.
Sybil Cook was conscionable 9 years aged successful 1939 erstwhile she was fixed nan cocoa ovum by her uncle — and told to ration it. (Hansons Auctioneers / Fox News)
One of Cook’s 2 daughters, Gill Bolter, told Hansons that her mother was a disciplined female who wanted to beryllium "respectful to her elders."
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"When we asked Mom really she’d managed to support nan ovum for truthful long, she told america that having kept it each done nan warfare … it didn’t look correct to eat it," Bolter recalled.
The 85-year-old ovum is still intact — and will spell up for auction connected March 19. (Hansons Auctioneers / Fox News)
Bolter elaborate nan egg’s travel complete nan past 85 years.
He said it went pinch Cook done her puerility and into her matrimony successful 1955. It past sat connected a support successful her chamber for nan adjacent 60 years.
Bolter said she was yet talented nan ovum — and that she kept it successful her chamber until now.
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On Tuesday, March 19, nan ovum will beryllium auctioned disconnected by Hansons Auctioneers.
It's expected to waste for astatine slightest $300.
Cook lived to property 91 and kept nan ovum pinch her, wholly uneaten, passim her full life. It past went to 1 of her children. It will now spell up for auction. (Hansons Auctioneers / Fox News)
The container containing nan ovum held up truthful good that markings connected nan backmost noting nan owner's sanction and twelvemonth tin still beryllium seen.
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The 61-year-old head astatine a hospitality institution elaborate her mother’s characteristic by saying she loved ancient shows connected tv — and that her mom would emotion to cognize that her girl was auctioning disconnected nan typical egg.
Sybil Cook's sanction tin beryllium seen to this very infinitesimal connected nan cocoa Easter ovum container pinch nan twelvemonth 1939 intelligibly showing. (Hansons Auctioneers / Fox News)
"It would beryllium beautiful if nan ovum went to a depository alongside mom’s wartime memories," she told Hansons.
Hansons Auctioneers proprietor Charles Hanson said nan root communicative of nan Easter ovum "melted" his heart.
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"It's specified a awesome Easter find and story," he told Fox News Digital.
He continued, "Wartime austerity produced a procreation of group who treasured what small they had and ne'er took thing for granted. It's a instruction to america each to admit each that we have."
A cocoa Easter ovum was fixed to a then-nine-year-old from Britain, Sybil Cook, shown astatine near successful her later years, during World War II. It's now going up for auction. (Hansons Auctioneers / Fox News)
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