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To: Jet Jaguar

I have several lbs of real old german silverware my wifes mother gave us several years ago,we never would sell it.Im sure it was hoarded from the last depression.


4 posted on 03/10/2011 12:13:30 AM PST by Nooseman (mutt)
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To: Nooseman
"White" metals? Buy Aluminum!!!

j/k...sorta...

I have several lbs of real old german silverware..."

Unclear: "German-Silver" was a Depression-era term for nickel. (Similar to today's ubiquitous "stainless steel" silverware.)

11 posted on 03/10/2011 2:29:26 AM PST by Does so (Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.)
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