Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Dealers, Member Joined: 4/5/2008(UTC) Posts: 404 Points: 1,235 Location: Yonkers, NY
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I do not know why thise people waste money on posting like this unless >>>>
They are hoping, and they are sometimes right, that there are morons out there with more money than brains. Someone can tell their friends they have a carpet that came out of Saddam's palace and there are plenty of people who would want to believe it.
I have a necklace from Afghanistan I bought prior to the Soviet invasion from the guy I have spoken about before who had the shop in California. I paid $45 for the necklace in 1972. It was/is lovely. But a guy with a high end shop had one just like it, not exactly but very, very similar, that he had in his shop advertised as having come out of the dowry of princess so-and-so. I told my friend at my shop and he laughed and said ..... that guy (whom he knew personally) bought the "dowry necklace" of the princess so-and-so out of the same cardboard box that my friend had bought mine, and there was no story on any of it. Other than what each seller wanted to make up as he headed out of the merchants shop. But I swear, for the savy, these stories are part of the fun when you hear them and I have to laugh.
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