I have just spent the last few days in Tasmania, where I was born and raised until the age of 20. My grandmother is a JW in her 80's but let me stay at her house because "no one is going to tell her she can not speak to her own family". I visited relatives and friends, and found that almost everyone that I grew up with are no longer JWs. It was quite eye-opening; some have become Christians, some have New Age beliefs, some are athiests. Some are very sucessful and happy, others are drug addicts, and sadly more than one has committed suicide.
I remembered that when I was a teenager I used to mow the lawns for one of the original JWs from Tasmania. He died at the age of 99. Shortly before he died he gave me a number of his Watchtower publications. I had stored a box of them at my grandmothers, so went searching and found them. I now have original Studies in the Scriptures, and Rutherford's set of books. I did not realise that there were a number of covers of the Studies in the Scriptures. I have some with the normal red cover, but one which looks like a little black bible, and another beautiful 1923 copy of Thy Kingdom Come with an embosed hard cover, gold guilded edges and printed on thin bible paper.
Most incredible is an original copy of the booklet Millions Now Living Will Never Die. I looked on Ebay and found that these sell for $US200.