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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2013, 08:19:18 pm »
LOL !!  I am sure she would forgive you saying that Wullie !!
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2013, 08:28:25 pm »
AaaaH, but now it's documented in writing! ;D ;D
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2013, 08:44:21 pm »
The seller seems pretty reputable. If you check out his other listings he has many other high end charms. His prices maybe more like retail prices with his inventory and your really buying from a store.
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2013, 10:43:19 pm »
I can respect that but I cant really spend that much on a charm I have seen other just like it and different sale for much less and I really just want to figure out how to find another one. I guess I will hunt the internet everyday and look in ever shop I can find and hope to find one, maybe one day......
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2013, 02:51:03 am »
does anyone remember these...over here..in the late fifties...there were very few people from...what are now called .."the ethnic minority"...they used to come around..lugging heavy suitcases full of "silk" wall hangings...little ornaments..etc...an d if you bought something from them..they would give you a tiny little red seed..which could contain up to 12 tiny elephants...as a good luck charm...but they called them Magic seeds...i remember as a boy of 8 getting one of these...and on being told that it was a magic seed...i planted it in a pot..and waited ever so impatiently...for something to happen....but...it never did... ;D

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plmar97.htm#circassian
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2013, 10:55:16 am »
Those are amazing I have never actually seen one myself but I would love to find one of those too!!!! I imagine a lot of kids that got a magic seed would plant it and wait I know I would have!
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2013, 01:33:33 pm »
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2013, 01:46:37 pm »
Thank you!!! I will be begging the husband for this for sure maybe valentines  ;)
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2013, 07:27:21 pm »
Hope it isn`t gone before you can get it !!
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2013, 07:54:02 pm »
Me too!!! Just depends on my level of beg lol!!!
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2013, 08:07:49 pm »
Good luck with the begging !! LOL
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2013, 08:47:05 pm »
Hope you get it.  From what I remember about this...they were outlawed being made/sold here because children were making them and caused vision loss.

I think they are amazing.  More amazing than writing/carving on a grain of rice!

Why pay that much?  Watch these two
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LUCKY-MAGIC-ELEPHANT-LUCK-WISHES-GOOD-FORTUNE-CIRCASSIAN-SEED-free-BOGO-/360575491103?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f3f95c1f

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAGIC-ELEPHANT-BEAN-WISHES-GOOD-LUCK-FORTUNE-CIRCASSIAN-SEED-free-BOGO-/360570466760?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f3acb1c8
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2013, 09:43:47 pm »
seeing them again..for the first time in 50 odd years....has brought back memories of when i was 8 years old...its like this seed was the key that unlocked them...i can still remember planting the seed in that little pot...of earth...and watering it..and waking excitedly every morning for near a month wondering what was going to grow...think Jack and the Beanstalk"..... ;D...thinking back now..it was a bit like.".planting a feather..and hoping to grow a Hen".........
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Re: Rum elephant charm
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2013, 04:00:00 pm »
Thank you for the less expensive links!!!! I a going to get one for sure it is a little piece of history sad for the kids with vision loss though :(
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