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<p>[QUOTE="Barn Owl, post: 575118, member: 4864"]Today I visited a flea market in Krakow. Naturally, working on 2 hours sleep, hungry, tired, I let my excitement get ahead of my brain and purchased these for more than I would have otherwise (the equivalent of $31.7 total). I didn't ask about these, so it's not like the sellers gave me a long history of them. But I thought that the fruit on the box looked like an etrog and the mother of pearl purse looked old (bafflingly, I didn't notice the missing piece until after I bought it, which makes me wonder if I lost it on the way to my pocket. Anyway, now that I've gotten some rest, I'm wondering if I overpaid. If not for the fruit on the lid, I wouldn't have paid more than 5-8 dollars for the box at a thrift. As for the coin purse/wallet/thing, is it just a souvenir from Israel?</p><p><br /></p><p>The box is quite small, maybe only about 4 inches long. The last time I saw an etrog was in preschool, so I have no idea how big they are.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]173762[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173767[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173768[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173769[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173770[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Barn Owl, post: 575118, member: 4864"]Today I visited a flea market in Krakow. Naturally, working on 2 hours sleep, hungry, tired, I let my excitement get ahead of my brain and purchased these for more than I would have otherwise (the equivalent of $31.7 total). I didn't ask about these, so it's not like the sellers gave me a long history of them. But I thought that the fruit on the box looked like an etrog and the mother of pearl purse looked old (bafflingly, I didn't notice the missing piece until after I bought it, which makes me wonder if I lost it on the way to my pocket. Anyway, now that I've gotten some rest, I'm wondering if I overpaid. If not for the fruit on the lid, I wouldn't have paid more than 5-8 dollars for the box at a thrift. As for the coin purse/wallet/thing, is it just a souvenir from Israel? The box is quite small, maybe only about 4 inches long. The last time I saw an etrog was in preschool, so I have no idea how big they are. [ATTACH=full]173762[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173767[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173768[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173769[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173770[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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