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Gold
... that you can find real gold in our State Capitol? (To be fair though, there's so little of it that I used to tell tour groups there is more gold in my grandma’s teeth than in the capitol!) In the State Reception room hang six red French velvet curtains with a gold State Seal in the center. Each seal was hand stitched by a different woman back in the 1920’s, so each of the seals are unique. The thread used to write “The Seal of the Great State of Washington 1889” is 14 karat gold.

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