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Duke attempts the Impossible
duke3016:
In 1975 when I attained the ripe old age of 21, my then girlfriend presented me with a signet ring. It had my initials engraved on it and everything. Pauline Wade was her name and a lovely woman she was, but, me being me, the relationship fizzled out. Anyway I wore that ring for years, but for one reason or another I stopped. I found this ring a couple of weeks ago as I was stripping my bedroom. Of course, my hands (along with the rest of me) have gained a bit of plumpness since I had last worn it. So it would not fit.
Well today I took it down to the jewellers and enquired about enlarging it. No problem they said at a cost of £22. No brainer I said go ahead. Well after measuring the nice lady looked at the hallmarks inside the ring and weighed the item. We were chatting at this stage and I was relating the story of its origin.
She then said that my former girlfriend must have been very fond of me, I inquired as to why and she said that for insurance purposes the ring is worth in excess of £500. I knew I should have worked harder at that relationship...
Paulie_D:
Ger,
Not to put a dampener on that but Gold has increased in value by a factor of 10 since 1975 From roughly $150 an ounce to c.$1400 now. It did reach over $1750 at one point last year
That"s not so say that £50 wasn"t a lot of money back in 1975....it was.! :)
duke3016:
We would never have been happy anyway ;D ;D ;D ;D
duke3016:
New Brighton G was a bit of a rollercoaster last night. The tourney became a bit of a shove or fold game late on and I shoved when I should have folded ;D
Finished up a wee bit on 3 card poker and doubled my buy in on the 50p 50p cash table. Good night enjoyed it a lot.
duke3016:
Four emails in May, four increased heartbeats, four "feck it" moments.
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