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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2044108, member: 19463"]Sometimes it amazes me how easy it is to find something using Google. Type in Saint Anthony cross and select images. Scroll down until you see the one in a thousand images that matches. Go to the page from which they took the image and see what they had to say about it. The Cross struck me as a very collectible item for someone who is Catholic and interested in medals. I am neither but I don't mind learning useless stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>The second one might be a really great item for people interested in the history of champagne or France. Again I'm neither but the tag looks less impressive to me than the cross in terms of manufacture. It also looks small to me rather like something a very expensive wine in 1936 might have had attached around its neck. To the right person, it might be a rare collectible so I hesitate to say it looks uninteresting and/or worthless. I do note there is nothing similar shown in photos of multi thousand dollar vintage wine auctions so the tag may be a souvenir of a visit to the winery sometime in the past. I already know way more about this than I want but researching things online is fun to a point. IMHO all schools should have a class in search engine schools. I suspect there are 15 year olds around who could have found all this and more in a fraction of the time it took me to fail on the second one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2044108, member: 19463"]Sometimes it amazes me how easy it is to find something using Google. Type in Saint Anthony cross and select images. Scroll down until you see the one in a thousand images that matches. Go to the page from which they took the image and see what they had to say about it. The Cross struck me as a very collectible item for someone who is Catholic and interested in medals. I am neither but I don't mind learning useless stuff. The second one might be a really great item for people interested in the history of champagne or France. Again I'm neither but the tag looks less impressive to me than the cross in terms of manufacture. It also looks small to me rather like something a very expensive wine in 1936 might have had attached around its neck. To the right person, it might be a rare collectible so I hesitate to say it looks uninteresting and/or worthless. I do note there is nothing similar shown in photos of multi thousand dollar vintage wine auctions so the tag may be a souvenir of a visit to the winery sometime in the past. I already know way more about this than I want but researching things online is fun to a point. IMHO all schools should have a class in search engine schools. I suspect there are 15 year olds around who could have found all this and more in a fraction of the time it took me to fail on the second one.[/QUOTE]
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