RE: gold v bitcoin12 Dec 2020 16:28
Speedy, I was going around a stately home, as you do, and after spending a long time in the Canaletto Room (27 in the collection, OMG) I spied a tall classic blue and white Delft tulip tower - early 1600s, mint condition. Utterly beautiful. It was just sitting there, on a wall cabinet, all by itself. I collect Delft, by the way. Not the modern stuff - 1600s, the earlier the better, including English Delft, not just monochrome. I once saw a charger in an antique shop in Lewis, again early 1600s, polychrome, absolutely brilliant, classic man and woman, dated, but it had a small crack, so I left it. Then I saw its twin later in York Museum. I went back to Lewis but it had been sold. Heyho.
I've stopped buying Delft for the moment. Only buying shares, mostly GGP. Maybe when Covid19 is over ...