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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 281650, member: 56&quot;]I&#039;ve been acting the fool lately, spending money I can&#039;t afford on things I don&#039;t need.&nbsp; The common sense solution to that is Stop Doing It!&nbsp; But no one has ever accused me of having common sense.&nbsp; Soooo... I figure if I&#039;m going to waste money, I might as well waste some of it on something I&#039;ve wanted for a long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a 1974 catalog of 18th C Gold Boxes in the Patino collection:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]89929[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a small book, only 66 boxes, with text by Kenneth Snowman.&nbsp; They are beautiful boxes (mostly for snuff).&nbsp; The biggest drawback to the catalog is that it doesn&#039;t show any of the marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Patinos had the wealth of Croesus.&nbsp; They were known as The Tin Kings of Bolivia for their mining interests at the time of the Second World War - strategic metal, and all that.&nbsp; And they had a taste for 18th C gold and silver.&nbsp; There&#039;s a story of the matriarch, on her death bed, giving instructions to a son about what to bid on at an upcoming auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>This picture shows the catalog against a background of Patino auction catalogs that I&#039;ve had for decades.&nbsp; (Oops... one is a Thyssen catalog.) Spectacular stuff and as close as I&#039;m ever going to get to any of it.&nbsp; The document in front is a Patino Mining Corporation stock certificate (cancelled) that I purchased on eBay to go with the catalogs.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]89930[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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