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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 220592, member: 360&quot;]This has been some thread!! </p><p><br /></p><p>Will, I hate to say it but the others are right. There isn&#039;t anything particularly old about your magnifying glass. The age of the owner is no indication of the age of the item. </p><p><br /></p><p>Stuff like this happens a LOT in antiques circles unfortunately. I remember a woman who swore up and down that she had three antique coin-cases (like, sovereign cases) for sale and that they were sterling silver. </p><p><br /></p><p>I told her quite blankly that they were silver, but they were vesta cases. And she exploded into a RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE about how she had been dealing in antiques for 30 years and how she knew what she had and that what she had were coin cases because matchsticks don&#039;t fit into them and all that stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>I told her that if she really was an antiques dealer of 30 years exprience, she&#039;d know a vesta-case when she sees one, and would know that antique matches were MUCH smaller than modern ones. But she refused to listen. She stormed off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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