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<p>[QUOTE="ola402, post: 164175, member: 182"]I so adore the pin! When I was in high school, it was the thing to have a plain round circle pin and I just never got over them, I suppose.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once I got a metal "thing" as an extra in a box lot. It was gold and I could clearly see that it had been spray painted. Almost threw it away because who would spray paint gold something that was nice, right? Well, I scratched it and underneath it was silver, so I cleaned off the spray paint and found it to be sterling. As I remember, it was some kind of beautiful holder with a pretty purple glass bowl in it. Just lovely. I was lucky that the holder was plain and not curlequed up or the paint would have been harder to remove. For awhile, everything decorative is silver, and then for awhile it shifts to gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also bought 2 very large Fenton silver crest vases that had been glued all over with sea shells and other weird stuff found on the beach. The original owner must have thought they were too plain. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sure we all have stories like these and I love to hear them all, so amusing![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ola402, post: 164175, member: 182"]I so adore the pin! When I was in high school, it was the thing to have a plain round circle pin and I just never got over them, I suppose. Once I got a metal "thing" as an extra in a box lot. It was gold and I could clearly see that it had been spray painted. Almost threw it away because who would spray paint gold something that was nice, right? Well, I scratched it and underneath it was silver, so I cleaned off the spray paint and found it to be sterling. As I remember, it was some kind of beautiful holder with a pretty purple glass bowl in it. Just lovely. I was lucky that the holder was plain and not curlequed up or the paint would have been harder to remove. For awhile, everything decorative is silver, and then for awhile it shifts to gold. I also bought 2 very large Fenton silver crest vases that had been glued all over with sea shells and other weird stuff found on the beach. The original owner must have thought they were too plain. I'm sure we all have stories like these and I love to hear them all, so amusing![/QUOTE]
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