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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 932946, member: 5515&quot;]Good (late) evening everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you are having a good night, I certainly am and I wanted to share two stories with you. Well, technically it&#039;s three stories, but the first one is really short. Story one: today&#039;s my birthday, and only god knows how badly I was hoping to get some silver on my birthday. Well, turns out that wish came true today, here&#039;s the two events:</p><p><br /></p><p>I took the day off from work to relax and enjoy that one day out of the year that I get older. I decided I would have a relaxing day, nothing too hectic. I did decide to visit a few local stores, but honestly I didn&#039;t put any real pressure on myself, I just tried to relax and enjoy the day. I got to the last store I was visiting, and I saw a big box of flatware on the counter top. It was wrapped up very thickly with tape over the opening, and so I could just barely turn over one piece of flatware to read the back. My heart started racing, it said sterling on the back, and to my quick and excited eye, it was a full set!!!!!! Well, I paid the $25 the store was asking, and to my terrible dismay, when I got in my car, I realized that only by sheer luck I managed to turn over the only item in the bunch that was sterling, and the rest of the box was plated, and made by Godinger (photo 2 shows the sterling S Kirk and Son ladle next to the plated Godinger serving utensil):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]202545[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]202546[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]202547[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]202548[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>All kidding aside, it&#039;s still a wonderful find. I&#039;ll sell the Godinger set and keep the ladle in my eclectic collection of flatware. But that&#039;s not where my day ended. I went back home and watched some shows and relaxed some more. Whenever I find myself bored, I hop online and start to search again. Just how much do I search? <u>ALL the time, every day, probably too much</u>. But I know that the frequency of my searches increases the probability of my finds. Today proved that theory again. I stumbled across a fairly recent listing, this was for a set of &quot;stainless flatware&quot;....Doesn&#039;t this story sound familiar to one I told recently? Well, the items didn&#039;t look stainless, and that got me inquiring. I liked what the seller told me, and I hopped in my car, drove 2 1/2 hours away from my home, paid a modest sum, and here&#039;s what was in the box. Not a bad birthday gift for myself. Round trip ended up being 4 1/2 hours, but well worth the time and the energy:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]202549[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]202550[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]202551[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]202552[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]202553[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]202554[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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