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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WaynePB, post: 920546, member: 11969&quot;]Hello my name is Wayne and this is not a discussion about an antique so I&#039;m not sure if this is the right place to post this or not but I just wanted to say thank you to some members on this site for welcoming me to it. I&#039;ve been offline a couple of days doing family stuff and I hope those members who contacted me don&#039;t think their messages of support fell on deaf ears. Before I say what I want to say I want to thank Bronwen, Dave, Jivvy and Ineedhelp for not only making attempts to calm things down but for going out of their way to be decent human beings. Now to what I want to say. I have a bookcase in my front room. The number of books it contains isn&#039;t large simply because I am very selective about what it said in the confines of my living space, even if it is from authors who are content to keep their opinions to themselves until someone opens their pages. With a simple glance I see a book about experts trying to figure out who we are as Sapiens and why we rise above every other animal on this planet. Spoiler alert - one of the reasons is it&#039;s because a cognitive explosion has made us want to appreciate and understand where we come from. I have books on Persia, Greece and Rome right up to the formation of the modern Europe we know today. I don&#039;t have anything on America and for my American friends I apologise. It is up to you to find out where you came from and I hope your voyage will be as enjoyable as mine has been. I bought an antique a couple of weeks ago, at least I think it&#039;s an antique and every time I hold it in my hands I hope that it&#039;s an antique. I look at it and what it cost me, and what it may be of value, becomes totally meaningless. Someone, somewhere in the past, at some unspecified date that no one can agree upon, made something that was beautiful. That really is all I need to know. I posted pictures of it on this site and people who knew what they were talking about agreed that it was beautiful. That really is all I need to know. I will keep it and protect it until it becomes my daughter&#039;s after I am gone. That really is all I need to know. I held an inkwell in my hand tonight, held it up to the light and thought &quot;My God the stories this must hold.&quot; Puts the crap about personalities disagreeing with each other in perspective doesn&#039;t it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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