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Chats on old pewter (1911)

Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph), b. 1860 · London, T.F. Unwin · leaf 82

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the more willing the dealer will be to paymore, for of course he will get it quite easily from hisclient. Eventually it changes hands at a con-siderable premium, and the customer who placedhis inquiry, with perhaps a limit of price, has toincrease this before he secures the thing so keenlycoveted.… … 79 DEALERS AND MAKERS DODGES 81 it may be replied that it may have made it expensivejust then for any one who began to collect for nospecial reason at that particular time. There were,however, keen collectors of pewter twenty yearsbefore that, and they had the real fun, for theycollected from their…

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