Keeping an Eye on Him

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Keeping an Eye on Him

#1 Postby southerngale » Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:14 pm

A man had such a hard time parting with his glass eye that he had it refitted into a ring. Michael Burton had the artificial eye for 35 years because of an industrial accident and recently had to have it refitted. Since he didn't want to just dispose of it, he took it to jeweler Al Nix. "That eye cost me two-thousand dollars 35 years ago," Burton said. "It took three days for people to hand-paint that eye. To throw it away would be like buying a new car and just taking my old car to the dump. I guess it's like they say -- one man's trash is another man's treasure." Nix put together a design team that designed a ring incorporating the odd shape of the artificial eye. It took the team about four weeks to set the eye and another four to complete the ring. Three ounces of gold set the eye as a stone. Burton was delighted with the result.


Talk about recycling!!
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#2 Postby Josephine96 » Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:50 pm

Now that is a wierd 1 lol
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#3 Postby blizzard » Fri Feb 27, 2004 8:00 pm

lol...I would like to "see" that ring....:lol:
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