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Lady Astor to Winston Churchill (The Prime Minister, not engraver):
"Mr Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your drink."
Churchill: "Madam, if you were my wife, I would gladly drink it."


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Those two never got on....Lady Astor.."Mr Churchill, you are drunk".....Churchill.."Maam, I maybe drunk but you are ugly and I will be sober in the morning"

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Churchill on Atlee, I believe....."A modest man with much to be modest about"

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"and I promise you" .[Just about any politician]
Mint condition .Like the gum well chewed .

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My favorite description of guns with a few dings: "handling marks". Who the hell handled them anyhow, King Kong??

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Roger, thanks for the note on Firearms Engraving as a Decorative Art. I purchased a copy this a.m. Any information on the subject is always interesting. Daryl

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Originally Posted By: L. Brown
My favorite description of guns with a few dings: "handling marks". Who the hell handled them anyhow, King Kong??



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When a seller decides to use the word 'patina' in his or her description, the true definition should be sought in a proper dictionary! I have handled, and owned, countless guns with 'patina' that was nothing more than 100 years of rust build-up, polished smooth after decades of applications of oil and general use/handling.


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Originally Posted By: Roundsworth
When a seller decides to use the word 'patina' in his or her description, the true definition should be sought in a proper dictionary! I have handled, and owned, countless guns with 'patina' that was nothing more than 100 years of rust build-up, polished smooth after decades of applications of oil and general use/handling.


Amen, regarding guns a trendy word for rust....... just like "the barrels only have one small dent" (that I can see or want to tell you about, hoping you are blind)...... laugh.......and "it will never effect the guns shooting quality"......

Or how about:

"it looks like it should for a 100 year old gun" (that's been kept in a barn)


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One of my favorites:

Assertion: "The guns only been test fired"

Reality: The gun was part of destructive testing done by some agency and it is the last example still in one piece.

Jim


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