Are you a collector and if so what type? If not, what are you?

Can’t argue with most of that Jules, although I would rather like to have all the interest payments I’ve made over the years back. 😕
 
I have a garage with a certain value but apart from insurance purposes, I don't attach the slightest importance to that since history has taught me that I might have to leave double quick leaving everything behind if things turn sour, which they regularly do.

We got some compensation from the French around 2000 for what was stolen during WW2, lace machines from the family factory, and compensation from Germany twice for having emptied the family home.
There was also the small matter of the Russian bonds.
If the worse comes to the worse, maybe my great grandchildren might have a small windfall due to great grand dads motorcycles.

We have a state pension in France, not out of reach of upheavals but a lot more certain than relying on the dreaded market. 68 million people working together pull some weight.

Paul
 
Totally off subject, but when last spring I could at last stop paying off debts contracted by myself and my ex wife, near 20 years ago, I decided to buy a jazz type guitar.
I'm going to see these two next week and I'm pretty sure that I'll be coming away with one of them.
The Gibson is an L4 CES, the other more classic archtop is made by a French luthier, Frank Cheval.

Cheval Guitares - Livre Le Chemin du Luthier

Guitares haut de gamme réalisées avec des bois d'exception. Guitares sur mesure.
www.chevalguitars.com

Paul

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Paul Marx said:
I have a garage with a certain value but apart from insurance purposes, I don't attach the slightest importance to that since history has taught me that I might have to leave double quick leaving everything behind if things turn sour, which they regularly do.

We got some compensation from the French around 2000 for what was stolen during WW2, lace machines from the family factory, and compensation from Germany twice for having emptied the family home.
There was also the small matter of the Russian bonds.
If the worse comes to the worse, maybe my great grandchildren might have a small windfall due to great grand dads motorcycles.

We have a state pension in France, not out of reach of upheavals but a lot more certain than relying on the dreaded market. 68 million people working together pull some weight.

Paul
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In 1940 my grandmother fled her home with her three kids and traveled via Berlin across occupied France to neutral Portugal where they took ship to New York. She was able to do this by selling her jewelry along the way. The lesson learned is to always have portable wealth readily at hand, just in case.
 
Alzero said:
In 1940 my grandmother fled her home with her three kids and traveled via Berlin across occupied France to neutral Portugal where they took ship to New York. She was able to do this by selling her jewelry along the way. The lesson learned is to always have portable wealth readily at hand, just in case.
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Yes, but even gold teeth can be taken out.

Paul
 
Comedian Benny Hill once said " Money ( in his case wealth ) is just numbers written down on a piece of paper " ....... Nice to be in a position to think like that ....... Was he happy with all that wealth though ? .......... He never gave a definition as to what happiness is ........ ( although he could have asked Ken Dodd ....... ) ......


Reminds me of a story ( not quite the right section but I`ll slip it in anyway ... )...

French President Charles De Gaulle and his wife were on a visit to London ...... At a dinner that evening there were some journalists present , and they asked De Gaulle`s wife , who was sat next to him , what she wanted most out of life .......
" A Penis " she replied ........
The journalists looked at each other , Er right , okay .........
De Gaulle leaned over to his wife and whispered to her ......... " In England , they pronounce it " Appiness " .......

Does make you wonder what Ken was really singing about .........
 
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rocketonarail said:
Comedian Benny Hill once said " Money ( in his case wealth ) is just numbers written down on a piece of paper " ....... Nice to be in a position to think like that ....... Was he happy with all that wealth though ? .......... He never gave a definition as to what happiness is ........ ( although he could have asked Ken Dodd ....... ) ......


Reminds me of a story ( not quite the right section but I`ll slip it in anyway ... )...

French President Charles De Gaulle and his wife were on a visit to London ...... At a dinner that evening there were some journalists present , and they asked De Gaulle`s wife , who was sat next to him , what she wanted most out of life .......
" A Penis " she replied ........
The journalists looked at each other , Er right , okay .........
De Gaulle leaned over to his wife and whispered to her ......... " In England , they pronounce it " Appiness " .......
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De Gaulle came to visit when I was at school in London, must have been 1958, 1959? The school lodged some of the Free French services during WW2. De Gaulle himself had his offices in Carlton Gardens. There's an 8mm film at my parents place now occupied by my stepmother showing the school visit.

Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
De Gaulle came to visit when I was at school in London, must have been 1958, 1959? The school lodged some of the Free French services during WW2. De Gaulle himself had his offices in Carlton Gardens. There's an 8mm film at my parents place now occupied by my stepmother showing the school visit.

Paul
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For someone who didn’t like the English he spent a lot of time over here…De Gaul that is,not you!
 
Incidently, Gibson aren't making archtops any more due to lack of wood, and they can't say if they'll be making any more in the future.

Paul
 
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