Hi, Monday, October 11, 2004, 8:53:43 PM, Graywolf wrote:
> That would go well with my collection of old Roman coins. All dates are clearly > marked B.C. so you know they are really old. Aha! I have a true story along those lines. A few years ago I was in a shop which purported to sell pre-Columbian pottery and little statuettes from Central America. I was rather interested in buying some, but they seemed unfeasibly cheap. Still, they were clearly labelled as 'pre-Columbian', so I asked the owner about it. "Are you really sure these are pre-Columbian?", I asked. "Oh, certainly", she said. "Perhaps you could explain these markings on the base". I handed her the statuette and showed her the words "Made in Mexico". -- Cheers, Bob
