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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
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I paid the same price for my Thompson-Chain leather Bible - 22 years ago.
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That Thompson Chain was hand-sewed.
I know a man who had WAP Thompson Chain Bible for sale in his Christian Bookstore. Seems they forgot to include 32 page of helps in the front before they were sewn. So they gave a good deal, and both my daughter and myself have one of these misfits with the WAP on the spine, but missing the Doctrinal Insert in the front.
They lay down flat on a table and fresh out of a box even all pages lay flat.
At some point, Thompson stopped having them sewn, and started using glue to bind them.... kept the cost low, but after a few years the glue is weakened and makes the Thompson quite inferior now.
My other personal Bible is a Zondervan Leather Bound and it is weakened after 30 yrs of use. The print is bigger for those of us above 40...:sshhh