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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MT Vessel, post: 3065151, member: 17506&quot;]Hello Everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was young, and lived in England (but now in Western Australia), that was the polite, if formal, form of greeting but I wonder how many use it now. Anyway, apt, I thought, for a forum devoted to the artefacts of bygone ages.</p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly, we find very few antique items of interest in this isolated part of the world, which is very frustrating. Unfortunately, the antiques auctions are mediocre and anything of remotely above-average quality is also prohibitively expensive. So we add only a few items to our collection each year; one which is an eclectic mix of odds and ends, ranging from porcelain to metalware.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amongst this assemblage are a number of items for which I&#039;d like to learn more - and I see this is the place to be: a very lively and informed company of kindred spirits, many of whom must themselves have acquired a lustrous patina through handling so many wonderful objet d&#039;art. In turn, perhaps I might help others in their quest for information and identification - I look forward to doing so![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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