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To: Ish who wrote (30707)	7/2/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I don't wanna brag, or nothin, but I have I think 65,000 pounds of granite. Blocks and slabs. There's one out in the yard here, a sample of sorts, five and a half feet long, three and a half wide, and six inches thick. Perfect candy table. I got lots of em. Stuff one in the car, Dr Crusher.

To: Ish who wrote (30707)	7/2/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I had a really nice piece of marble, it was the top of a type cabinet, you know, hand set type? I was working at the Tulane Print Shop, and Price, the manager, was going to throw away all the hand-set type stuff because all they did was offset anymore. And I talked him into letting me sell the type cases at the French Market for people to make shadow boxes, and I also sold the big wooden letters at the same time. Couldn't persuade anyone to buy the metal type, called several places around the country that sold it and no one was interested, so I took that to a scrap yard. Cleared around $600, which I split 50-50 with Tulane, and Price used it to give a very nice Christmas party. He let me keep one of the cabinets, the one with the marble top. It was all black because the printers used it to roll out the ink before they inked the chases of type. I scubbed it with Bon Ami, and got it white but it was all scratched and pitted from decades of abuse. I used the cabinet in my kitchen for years, and then I took the marble top to a stone company to have it polished, and they never called me and I forgot about it. And when I went back the company was gone.