Well said, Lord Lowell - what of the surfacing of the "Black Invincible" from the depths of the Indiana hog country years ago? Quantum leaps were made by the quizzical, beard-tugging Amish who brought it out, a "fogotten relic" just now re-introduced into the stratosphere of the rare objects of desire. Said to be offered only because the up-and-coming "youngers" needed that extra 4 sections of black earth to churn for corn to feed the porkers. I always envisioned it hanging over the huge hearth, blackened by generations of smoke, while full-bellied elders puffed away on their Meerschaums after dinner and remembered grandpa's greatest shot on the mile-high honker. Like the Maltese Falcon, "no clumsy coat of cheap black enamel could hide the true treasure that lie underneath." What great fodder for the greedy after the obscure! KBM
