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[ti:A Happy Discovery]
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[00:01.46]Lesson 34
[00:03.61]A happy discovery
[00:11.91]What was the 'happy discovery' ?
[00:17.05]Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people.
[00:22.82]The more expensive kind of antique shop
[00:25.43]where rare objects are beautifully displayed in glass cases
[00:29.67]to keep them free from dust is usually a forbidding place.
[00:34.62]But no one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop.
[00:40.67]There is always hope that in its labyrinth of musty, dark, disordered rooms
[00:46.51]a real rarity will be found amongst the piles of assorted junk that litter the floors.
[00:53.44]No one discovers a rarity by chance.
[00:56.73]A truly dedicated bargain hunter must have patience,
[01:00.96]and above all, the ability to recognize the worth of something when he sees it.
[01:07.03]To do this, he must be at least as knowledgeable as the dealer.
[01:11.92]Like a scientist bent on making a discovery,
[01:15.51]he must cherish the hope that one day he will be amply rewarded.
[01:20.82]My old friend, Frank Halliday, is just such a person.
[01:25.30]He has often described to me how he picked up a masterpiece for a mere £50.
[01:31.61]One Saturday morning, Frank visited an antique shop in my neighbourhood.