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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1686118, member: 66&quot;]That&#039;s because those are the ones most unfamiliar to them.&nbsp; Also we are a very young country so things that are over a hundred yeears old or getting &quot;close&quot; to being older than the country tend to hold a facination for Americans.&nbsp; One hundred or two hundred years old doesn&#039;t have nearly as much fascination because they have over a thousand years of local history and tend to have MANY things around them older than that.&nbsp; I mentioned this to a collector from England&nbsp; once and he agreed.&nbsp; His magnifying glass was over 150 years old, the pub he frequented has been in business for four hundred year, there are still buildings in London with windows bricked up that were sealed in protest a tax on windows&nbsp; when it was passed by Henry VIII in the 1500&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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