KINGFIELD – Millicent Evans Clapp was surprised one day to find two old postcards stamped with the date Nov. 11, 1918, as she was looking through items she had saved in boxes over the years.

“I couldn’t believe what I had found,” Clapp said. “They’re probably nonexistent in the world. They’ll be 90 years old (Tuesday, Nov. 11) and they’re in good shape.”

One of them depicts several men at the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I, and the other shows the Armistice monument, the senior citizen said.

The Armistice temporarily stopped the war, calling a truce between the Allies and Germany at the 11th hour of the 11th day of November 1918, until the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919.

With the two postcards was a tiny frame with spent bullet cartridges on the side, Clapp said.

The items had been passed down through the family to her.

Clapp’s mother, Georgianna Evans, had brothers who served in World War I and Clapp herself had a brother who served in World War II.

Clapp said one of her uncles, William Bourdeau, lied about his age and joined the military at 16 in 1918. Three months later he was killed in the Battle of Chateau-Thierry in France, Clapp said. Americans and the French launched a drive against the Germans during that battle, which was fought on July 18, 1918.

Clapp’s grandmother, her mother’s mother, had taken a trip to Europe with other Gold Star mothers and visited Flanders Fields.

Her grandmother chose one of the small white crosses to place a wreath in memory of her young son killed in battle, Clapp said.

It was her uncle Arthur Bourdeau, who was also in the war that brought the postcards home to New Hampshire, said Clapp, who moved to Kingfield about 12 years ago to take care of an ailing family member.

She has removed the keepsake treasures from the box for safekeeping.

“This was a moment in history some of my ancestors participated in,” she said.