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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7793620, member: 110504"]Thanks for that, [USER=100777]@octavius[/USER]! ...Along with cordial commiseration about the one you lost, this is looking like a really fine --no, frankly impressive-- example of pottery from the cusp of the 1st millennium BCE. ...Nope, not late- or post-Mycenaean, but Dang, at $500, Good Enough.</p><p>And I'm Really Jealous of your bookcase! What I've got, on the only wall that gets to be devoted to bookshelves, is an improvisatory mish-mash of smaller ones, from nice, wooden ones (which are too small) to ones which are literally composite. Ugh. The books they hold effectively justify their continued existence.</p><p>...Except, now I'm noticing that you still have to stack books, more or less <i>en masse</i> (right hand side of your last pic).</p><p>...And <i>then</i> you see pics of people, for instance, from Zoom, where they've got bookshelves behind them which are taken up largely by stuff generically known as 'dust collectors.' And I'm saying, NO! that's for BOOKS! --Nope, not to even insinuate that you could be accused of any such thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7793620, member: 110504"]Thanks for that, [USER=100777]@octavius[/USER]! ...Along with cordial commiseration about the one you lost, this is looking like a really fine --no, frankly impressive-- example of pottery from the cusp of the 1st millennium BCE. ...Nope, not late- or post-Mycenaean, but Dang, at $500, Good Enough. And I'm Really Jealous of your bookcase! What I've got, on the only wall that gets to be devoted to bookshelves, is an improvisatory mish-mash of smaller ones, from nice, wooden ones (which are too small) to ones which are literally composite. Ugh. The books they hold effectively justify their continued existence. ...Except, now I'm noticing that you still have to stack books, more or less [I]en masse[/I] (right hand side of your last pic). ...And [I]then[/I] you see pics of people, for instance, from Zoom, where they've got bookshelves behind them which are taken up largely by stuff generically known as 'dust collectors.' And I'm saying, NO! that's for BOOKS! --Nope, not to even insinuate that you could be accused of any such thing.[/QUOTE]
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