Anyone read chinese?

[BashLad]

My great-granddad brought these pictures back from china with these written on. I've always wondered what they said.

[john from yick]

try the local chippy
                john

[NgLiuYin]

The first picture is a note from the gift giver.  It roughly translates to:

Mr. Thomas,
Please enjoy.
From the Republic of China.
Li Sin Textile (?) Company

The second is the gift itself, a poem.

[BashLad]

The first picture is a note from the gift giver.  It roughly translates to:

Mr. Thomas,
Please enjoy.
From the Republic of China.
Li Sin Textile (?) Company

The second is the gift itself, a poem.

Haha, you've just made my day; I posted this 6 years ago. Thank you very much.

My great-grandfather, George Thomas, was an industrial chemist who worked in the textile industry and travelled all over; 1921-1925 he was in China helping set up factories, I assume, bleaching fabric.

Before he left the workers were supposed to have given him a two-piece silver plaque and these two pictures.