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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benveniste, post: 26792234, member: 25547&quot;]I too commissioned a sculpture made of silver.&nbsp; It guarded my late wife&#039;s jewelry box and was a wee bit smaller:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1710134[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite bit of silver history involves the Manhattan Project.&nbsp; The project needed a large quantity of conductive wire to make calutrons to enrich Uranium.&nbsp; Copper was a critical resource for the war, and while the project could have requisitioned it, it could not do so secretly.&nbsp; Instead, Colonel Kenneth Nichols negotiated a loan of silver from the Treasury.&nbsp; 14,700 tons of the stuff, or, if you prefer, over 428 million troy ounces.&nbsp; Eventually all but about 15,500 troy ounces was returned to the Treasury.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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