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<blockquote data-quote="satellitedriver" data-source="post: 773521" data-attributes="member: 1664">Ha, ha.One would have to be old enough to remember when merchants wrapped merchandise in paper and tied it closed with string, before there were shopping bags.Sadly, I am that old.Last year I was at an auction and there was a cast iron beehive shaped object and the auctioneer did not know what it was.I pointed to the hole on the top, then removed the hive from the base.The hive was a place to hold the ball of twine and the hole on top was where the twine came out.Damn, I should have bought it, but $45 was more than I would go.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="satellitedriver, post: 773521, member: 1664"] [B][COLOR=darkgreen] Ha, ha. One would have to be old enough to remember when merchants wrapped merchandise in paper and tied it closed with string, before there were shopping bags. Sadly, I am that old. Last year I was at an auction and there was a cast iron beehive shaped object and the auctioneer did not know what it was. I pointed to the hole on the top, then removed the hive from the base. The hive was a place to hold the ball of twine and the hole on top was where the twine came out. Damn, I should have bought it, but $45 was more than I would go. [/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]

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