Thursday 24 March 2016

Stirring stuff

Dates & Places of Origin, Materials & Uses please.

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Good Queen Bess

8a. Philip II of Spain
Looks very like the chap on the left


Hercule François de France of the House of valois, Duke of Alençon, Château-Thierry, Anjou, Berry and Touraine
Not unlike the chap on the right, Good Queen Bess called him her little frog

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Monday 21 March 2016

Four vessels ~ not for sail ~

Can you identify their dates and cultures of origin and state their purposes?
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A Fuzzy Hellenistic bronze cupping pot of the 3rd century BC

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Just a few vervels more

Any information about the following items will be appreciated

There seem to have been four main varieties of vervel or hawking ring which might crudely be likened to a washer, a shield with a hole, a signet ring and a poesy ring with the legend on the outside. They usually bore the arms, name or location of the bird's owner. Number four is in two parts to clamp on the hawk's leg, released by pushing a peg into the hole to compress a recurved leaf-spring.    

The word vervel is Dutch in origin meaning bored (having a hole bored in it) .                                        

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