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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 11728354, member: 128351"]In the 70s I have been visiting natural wildlife reserves in Kenya and Tanzania. In a lodge in the wild I bought myself as a souvenir an old spear (the kind with a very long hand-forged iron blade), they assured it had been confiscated from poachers who killed a rhino with it. I bought the spear and carried it with me until I reached the airport for my home flight. At the airport, police told me I could not go in the plane with this, took it from me and assured I would get it back after landing. But when I arrived and took back my luggage, no spear. I filled a lost luggage form and went home. A few days later somebody from the airline company rang my doorbell, carrying for me a whole bunch of Masai spears like mine, I remember they were at least a dozen. I searched the bunch, recognized my spear and told the guy that the others were not mine. He was really annoyed, asking me as a favor to take the whole lot because nobody know who were the owners of the other spears, officially they were all mine. I stood firm and accepted only my spear, I don't know what the guy did with the other ones. Today I don't regret this. The only thing I regret is that it was a spear. If it had been an ancient coin I think I would have accepted the whole collection...[/QUOTE]