quite. Strangely, I was watching a program on Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington a couple of weeks ago - and whilst they were discussing the Duke of Wellington dying (1852) I was sat looking at a Clichy paperweight, unpolished with all it's pits and grazes. I picked it up and held it remarking to OH that it actually carries the DNA of people who were making it at more or less exactly that time. Amazing.
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