A beautiful specimen, Alvin. Thank you for sharing. I'm out of town at the moment but hope to share a recent acquisition (sadly, some minor pitting/rust which I removed but damage to the finish was done but a lot of it is still there given the conditions it was carried/not carried!).
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Michael
Nos morituri te salutant - Supposed saying of the gladiators to the emperor ('We, who are about to die, salute you.')
'We are the lantern bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind' - From Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers
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