That's called patina - only *america* craves the brand new / the no
maintenance brand new. Americans need to read umberto ecos book about
American culture called Travels in Hyperreality: Faith in Fakes

or if you want that critique home grown try the Tubes song, What Do You
Want From Life!?   ( "well you can't have That, but if you are an American
citizen, you Are entitled to.......")

On Monday, February 15, 2016, Rob Brooke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> If the originator of this thread expects to be doing some banding himself
> and is seeking the imprimatur of historic authenticity he should forget it
> and use gold, whether or not "authentic". Gold has the virtue of not
> combining with oxygen. It retains its lustre forever. All of the
> substitutes ultimately corrode and dull, some more quickly than others. If
> the question arose out of mere curiosity, I apologize for my pedantry.
>
> Rob
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