Interesting people, interesting objects. Take last night. I get a call from a couple living near us in the San Francisco Bay Area. They're interested in a sterling silver Merchant Marine pin we have from World War II.
We meet on this one 'cause they want to see it and it turns out the pin is for their father, a former merchant mariner who served in the Pacific, was shipwrecked, and passed recently. My buyer is his grandson, himself a just discharged Coast Guard corpsman.
He handled the pin like I'd just dropped a gold nugget in his palm and took it on the spot.
"It's for a shadow box we're doing on his grandfather," his girlfriend explained. "He led a very colorful life."
I'll say. Action in the Pacific, a shipwreck, back home to the East Bay and family who followed in his footsteps and went to sea. It's cool when these things "go home."
To my buyers: enjoyed meeting you very much...
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