Then he went on: "For seventy years, sir, this marvelous item was, as you might say, a football in the gutters of Paris-until 1911 when a Greek dealer named Charilaos Konstantinides found it in an obscure shop. It didn't take Charilaos long to learn what it was and to acquire it.
Potoloa une batez isilik geratu zen irribarre egiteko, eta buruari urrikaldurik eragin zion: -Hirurogeita hamar urtez, jauna, pieza zoragarri hori Parisko espaloi ertzetan baloi bihurturik ibili zen...