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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 224069, member: 25"]Allergy warning. This answer contains peanuts. Oops, so does the warning.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sympatise with your feelings about staple repairs. They are a sign of life after death for the stapled object, and usually they reduce the price to very little without in my opinion spoiling the item. They do enable people to buy what would be expensive and rare items for peanuts, which has to be good.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have always been willing to give houseroom to less than perfect stuff because I am not planning on selling it. It is stuff to keep. Stuff to sell, different matter, the 65th time of mentioning something has a flaw and seeing the buyer walk away is a good cure for buying the less than perfect for resale.</p><p><br /></p><p>I figure you can always turn the flawed side to the wall, and I am not the sort of person who that little flaw would cause heartache and eventual death.</p><p><br /></p><p>So long live the staples, I say. I really have no idea how it was done or what it would have cost at the time, does anyone know?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 224069, member: 25"]Allergy warning. This answer contains peanuts. Oops, so does the warning. I sympatise with your feelings about staple repairs. They are a sign of life after death for the stapled object, and usually they reduce the price to very little without in my opinion spoiling the item. They do enable people to buy what would be expensive and rare items for peanuts, which has to be good. I have always been willing to give houseroom to less than perfect stuff because I am not planning on selling it. It is stuff to keep. Stuff to sell, different matter, the 65th time of mentioning something has a flaw and seeing the buyer walk away is a good cure for buying the less than perfect for resale. I figure you can always turn the flawed side to the wall, and I am not the sort of person who that little flaw would cause heartache and eventual death. So long live the staples, I say. I really have no idea how it was done or what it would have cost at the time, does anyone know?[/QUOTE]
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