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[Kirchgoens]

I truly feel your pain... Last year I did the exact same thing. It was a beautiful wartime flatback OPW2 with fully intact enamel in great condition. I brought it home, so proud of my find, only to drop it on the ceramic tile of my kitchen floor in the first two hours. Two starpoints were shattered out, and I was heartbroken. Nothing breaks faster and easier than a wartime OPW2. I see more of them broken than intact, and I still think and agonize on my contribution to this late period homefront damage.

I'm not selling my stocks and mutual funds, and I continue to save, so that money will come back in spades one day. But my OPW2 will always be broken. I am sad and deeply bummed a year later.