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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;popsycat, post: 299114, member: 1904&quot;]We were at a brocante/vide grenier on Sunday. There was a stall with loads of little bits on, mostly metal. The stall holder, whom we have seen before was very chatty. He bragged about being the resident &quot;expert&quot; in the local edition of a national newspaper. He produced a folder with cuttings of his articles. As he was bragging about his expertise we bought something which we haggled from 25 euros to 20. It is a pair of silver sugar nips. The ones shaped like scissors. Very rococco. The handles had obvous marks on. We found we had bought a pair of nips about 1700 with Reims marks on. I kept saying, as we walked away &#039;I can&#039;t believe an expert sold us them for 20 euros&quot; I have found, over the years, that the experts I admire, are very modest. I regarded them as experts, but they did not regard themselves as such. Have you generally found that the people you regarded as very good in their field were quite modest?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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