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<p>[QUOTE="D. Bartlett, post: 5332407, member: 79246"]You may be on to something there. While I can’t attest to or deny any other poster’s worthy suggestions, this little elephant was found inside a velvet sack inside a safety deposit box. While not together with it, also in the box were a gentleman’s early-20th Century gold watch and chain (along with many other small/ish objet d’art.</p><p><br /></p><p>Adding further to the mystery was why it was in a safety deposit box in the first place, as many seemingly far more valuable items were on display in the man’s home. This either had enormous sentimental value or intrinsic value—-yet the man, my late uncle, never mentioned it (though he had broached the topic of the gold watch and many other items, including a coin collection, also in safety deposit).</p><p><br /></p><p>Curiouser and curiouser.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="D. Bartlett, post: 5332407, member: 79246"]You may be on to something there. While I can’t attest to or deny any other poster’s worthy suggestions, this little elephant was found inside a velvet sack inside a safety deposit box. While not together with it, also in the box were a gentleman’s early-20th Century gold watch and chain (along with many other small/ish objet d’art. Adding further to the mystery was why it was in a safety deposit box in the first place, as many seemingly far more valuable items were on display in the man’s home. This either had enormous sentimental value or intrinsic value—-yet the man, my late uncle, never mentioned it (though he had broached the topic of the gold watch and many other items, including a coin collection, also in safety deposit). Curiouser and curiouser.[/QUOTE]
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