Gotcha !!!!!

[wombat2u2004]

Hee hee.......another one for Wombats collection.

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...EOIBSA:FR:1123

[Karen]

Did you get it?

[wombat2u2004]

Did you get it?

Yep, got that one....it's the French one.
I bid a little later for a Belgian one, but missed out.

[Karen]

Some time you'll have to post an album of your collection!

[wombat2u2004]

Some time you'll have to post an album of your collection!

At the moment I have them all laying in order on a table on trestles in my office...hee hee.
I intend to frame them once I am satisfied that I am through spending money on them....some of them are SO expensive.

Good thing is tho, that I have got to know a lot of people who sell such stuff, and can sort out the ones who sell authentic items as against those who don't. Yeah, I've been caught a couple of times, but mostly I've been lucky.

I deal a bit with a guy in Toronto, and have got to know him very well. He does a lot of diving in the Great Lakes, and finds stuff which is really interesting. I got a 43rd Foot button from him not long ago that he found on a dive, made of pewter, cost me a cool $50. But I guess that's what one has to pay for stuff that old. He dated it to 1751, I guess he has the info to know when and how that ship went down.
But surprise surprise.....when I received the button, he also included one of the ships captains buttons that he'd found at the same spot. I think he felt kinda bad that I spent so much on the 43rd button, and wanted to keep me as a buyer.

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Something P.T. Barnum said comes to mind here.