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Show GOLD SPURS AS HEIRLOOMS German Gypsies Astonished Berlin Dealers When They Made Offer to Sell Them. Silver-spurred cowpunchers of America's Amer-ica's Golden West, the rough-riders of the Pendleton round-up r'.-.- - enne's frontier day, wov' 1 with envy if they could ? . pings of German gypsies-1 n- - , camp near Berlin. s at re These gypsies recently ajy ? a furore In police circles . ''iierlng heavy solid gold spurs for sa.e lu shops which buy old gold and other precious metal. The metal denlers advised the police and sought their aid in finding out how the wanderers came to have such valuable trappings. An Investigation showed that all the members of the band had similar spurs and had owned them for generations. They were heirlooms of the tribe and the owners had decided to part with some of them for the purpose of raising rais-ing more money to engage in horse trading on a larger scale than their depreciated paper marks made possible. |