Ha ha 
, no they never would 
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It’s cheap, in Russia costs ~17$
Material is cupronickel
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I missed this clever Lady Bracknell paraphrase until the riddle was solved this week.
When you consider how many theatres were built, how many dreadful plays were unleashed on the Victorian public the only play anybody can remember is this one.
Others like the “Second Mrs Tanqueray” have faded into oblivion. I bet you couldn’t even tell me who wrote it but it was a bigger hit than Mr Wilde’s.
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Ha! Glad you caught the reference. And Pinero wrote The Second Mrs Tanqueray. I saw it at George Brown College in TO about a decade ago. I probably could have used a few Tanqueray G&Ts to get through it.
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The first Ms T was not, as Pinero suggests Paula’s predecessor ,but in real life David’s wife, Anne Tanqueray (1691–1733), an English silversmith in her own right and the daughter of perhaps the most famous, arguably the most financially successful Huguenot silversmith/banker.
David was the son of David Tanqueray of St Lo, Normandy, apprenticed to David Willaume 1708, free 1722. 1st mark as largeworker 1713. He married Anne, David Willaume’s daughter in 1717. Second mark (sterling) 1720. Subordinate Goldsmith to the King 1729 and 1732. Tanqueray’s surviving work is relatively rare, a remarkable piece is his gilt wine cistern of 1718 at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.
On Tanqueray’s death c.1724, his widow Anne continued the business and entered two marks of her own.
Not until the family spawned a Norfolk parson who dabbled in Genever was such success repeated. My lot ran into them in the drinks trade in London in the 19th century, intermarried and here we are, decades later and still selling booze to the world.
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