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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 424751, member: 5066"]LOL, well, i hope you are right! Still, when one considers the difference in price between english or american could easily be 10 times or more, hoping doesn't quite cut it.</p><p>It's not ALL american chauvinism that accounts for price difference but it is a major factor, no doubt. Fact is, american pieces of that era are much more rare, GB had a much larger population, much larger middle class as well, they weren't fighting indians, trying to survive on the frontier, bla bla bla.</p><p>Bottom line is, there are A LOT more objects still around from GB than America from this era, more rare = more valuable, simple as that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 424751, member: 5066"]LOL, well, i hope you are right! Still, when one considers the difference in price between english or american could easily be 10 times or more, hoping doesn't quite cut it. It's not ALL american chauvinism that accounts for price difference but it is a major factor, no doubt. Fact is, american pieces of that era are much more rare, GB had a much larger population, much larger middle class as well, they weren't fighting indians, trying to survive on the frontier, bla bla bla. Bottom line is, there are A LOT more objects still around from GB than America from this era, more rare = more valuable, simple as that.[/QUOTE]
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