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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2561422, member: 10461&quot;]Thanks.&nbsp; Yep, that&#039;s pretty much how it happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the neat thing about love tokens, particularly those with a full name on them.&nbsp; You can often track down the original owners.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/954434/relic-of-a-short-life" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/954434/relic-of-a-short-life" rel="nofollow">Sometimes a photograph of the owner, who&#039;s been dead more than a century.</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/955039/the-quarrelsome-dr-prince" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/955039/the-quarrelsome-dr-prince" rel="nofollow">Sometimes a colorful newspaper article about them.</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/953535/died-on-the-train" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/953535/died-on-the-train" rel="nofollow">Sometimes a tragedy from long ago</a>, as was also the case of Private Harold Shaver above.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/965949/pill-poppin-sam-before-the-big-binge" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/965949/pill-poppin-sam-before-the-big-binge" rel="nofollow">This 18th century piece</a> barely missed qualifying for this thread, because I paid all of $51.66 for it after shipping.&nbsp; But what an interesting backstory it proved to have![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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