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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnnycb09, post: 9815907, member: 27&quot;]Way back in the dark ages when I was but a young fool,I was a volunteer for Meals On Wheels. One of my favorite clients was a 94 year old lady named Kathryn Porter.She lived in a crumbling 2 story house crammed with antiques. I often visited her even when I wasnt &quot;on duty&quot; . She had had a leak along one of her chimneys and the mantle had collapsed and she asked me if I would help her clean it up . So many lovely figurines and bric a brac was broken ,but the one thing relatively intact was a brass and copper Tiffany clock with matching candelabra (one arm was broken on a candelabra)&nbsp; she asked me if Id like to have it and I was thrilled. Mind you I was all of 18 and knew Tiffany was a good name but not a whole lot otherwise. Long story short,I took it to a shop to get it fixed and the guy said it&#039;d be $500 to fix it. Being a young person,I didnt have $50 much less 500. After I declined,he then offered to buy it from me for $500 and my but I was thrilled ! That was a fortune in 1980 ! As the years went by I realized he took full advantage of my ignorance,but thats the game, then and now . Miss Porter had been a New York socialite and had moved down to Florida with her mother after the crash of 1929. She never married,wich was astonishing as she had been a lovely girl . Her mother died in 1942 and she lived in that big old house alone till she died in 1983 . Her 1938 car was parked under the port cochere and other than flat tires was in remarkable condition. She and I would chat for hours,she told me lots of lovely stories about parties and trips and balls and the like. I wish I could have seen her again before she died .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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