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ha? that a young man he to oni rs, piercers, stamp-polishers, workers "in of the names are foreign, but the b rory, and hara woods" Some them, when you have to their counters, seem English. Some of the windows have a fairy-can buy "gold Smith and Jones are both dead; but if-you go up two flights of stairs, the second as steep as the path to Heaven, you find their successors. It is a long attic room with windows all down one side. It is always hot in there because the windows do not open, and there are two muffles going. At the long table by the window sit half a dozen men and women engaged -in enamelling and engrave The girl at the end is painting the burgee brooches for the next Cowes race meeting. The next man is ing a flapjack that has a picture of a nymph engraved under the coating of enamel. As the metal cools she appears delicately ethereal under a veil of green. In the middle Bill, a slim young man with large, deep-blue eyes, is chipping away at a bit of yellow metal stuck with pitch to the end of a stick. It is very fine work and you must look closely to see what it is. It is a cuff link, and round the edge he is cutting the motto of the Order of the Garter, and on the other link, is the Royal monogram. As you watch he flushes the cutting, prises the link off the pitch, and passes it over to be cleaned and enamelled. you lift the links they are heavy in the hand. They are gold, and when enamelled and polished, set in a leather case, they will go to Buckingham Palace by way of New Bond Street, The cuff links that the King gives as presents to personal friends are made by Bill in this Birmingham attic,
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