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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (19295)	3/14/1999 7:37:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Right, the rings were cork, covered by cloth. As were many old decoys. If they weren't kept varnished the cork rotted. Maybe that's why there is a market in old wooden decoys ( some bringing tens of thousands of dollars ) and not in cork decoys. Since you have the Helenator I thought you might like hear this. On Bob Brinker this afternoon a guy called in about his child's college fund. He had invested early and often. Wanted to know what to do. He had 500 large in the account, ie, $500,000. American money.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (19295)	3/14/1999 8:45:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

>>>Kapok for the vests, but I think a lot of the rings used cork.<<< I think we can check with the Smithsonian for the innerds of the Titanic life rings. I think I have a picture of "the first life preserver", and it was a mess of cork floats. Attached to a "bathing beauty." (Sink her!) It would have been quite an art to stuff a bunch of kapok into a rigid ring. Not that it couldn't be done. But it's non-machinable. So one would lean toward the life jacket, for kapok; and cork, for rings. Yet; a dictionary I have at this desk, the red one, says: (re kapok) ".....used esp. as a filling for mattresses, life preservers, and sleeping bags and as insulation." HMS Titanic and them ships - their life rings were incredibly rigid. Canvased cork; or waterproofed and structured kapok? This kind of talk makes me feel two things: We should have the research data close at hand; and horny. Did I say that? Maybe it's that that happens every time my brain gets engaged. I'm going to look for that bathing beauty c 1910. Portugese cork is the best. I say that's where we go look for women. To save.