The bestarmor 5,000 CZK kettles are $203 US. Add bank transfer fees and shipping (which really isn't too much more than the cost of shipping in the US) and it's probably $250.

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Currency converter: www.xe.com

Thanks Jeff: These do look good and like I said it's mostly just being a " Virgin " when it comes to dealing with overseas purchases. Like anything, it's mostly just doing it the first time. :D

The Canada Customs situation might be a bit different from buying from the U.S.A. were there are no custom duties but where we do have to pay sales taxes: With other countries not subject to the free trade agreement that exist between the U.S.A. and Canada there might be a steep duty to pay. What does help though is that the prices look very affordable, so even an extra 50% in cost would still be worth it. ( Just general info that might be useful to other Canadians and F.Y.I. )

In, any case if I see something I really want these minor issues are not going to stop me. :lol:

In the meantime that site has some seriously attractive eye candy. :cool:

Oh, and thank for the link to the currency converter: 5,000 something is scrary when one has no clue what it would be in
" Canadian Dollars ". ( Hope it works on a MAC )

Jeff;

Thanks again, not having to deal with an unknown vendor in Scammistan and sending credit card info into the void is reassuring.

Nothing beats a personal referal.

And thanks for the details about these kind of tranfers: Useful info for everyone here who not done so before.

Since i have a couple of expensive custom commissions in the pipe line this will have to wait until next year or until I can't resist anymore after looking at their stuff on a "daily " basis. ;) :lol:

Again very useful info. :cool:

Judging from the number of surviving norwegian kettlehats, they were either immensely popular or norwegians are a bunch of hoarding bastards who can't let anything go, no matter how old it is.

Now, there are eight more or less identical kettlehats, with the same construction and with a distribution that covers most of Norway. Common for them is that the edges of the "cross-plate" are thickened, to give the impression of immensely thick plate (the brim of one of the hats are 11 mm thick). But they are not very heavy.

Halvor