³1username³2TimShell³2name³2text_default³2version³21³2ts³2981011850³2ip³224.25.202.235³2data³2newauthor³31³3minor³30³3text³3The very first thing made from /ReardenMetal is a bracelet.  The bracelet symbolizes the value created by /HankRearden's long struggle to invent /ReardenMetal.  When he gives it to /LillianRearden as a present she says "It's fully as valuable as a piece of railroad rails."  However, Lillian fully grasps the significance of the gift - her snide remark is her way of denigrating her husband's ethos.

Later, at a party, when Lillian wears the bracelet as a joke and makes fun of it, /DagnyTaggart offers to buy it from her.
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