Fine looking chunk - what C.17th? the fireback - or earlier perhaps? It sits in your hearth as if it had spent the last three centuries there! (Instead of in my garage).
Vid ibidem what? I was so busy admiring it that I forgot to read the date on it. The style of the numerals supports your judgement of its rightness I believe.
even the v-word lispingly agrees -CORTH (as in 'corth it ith, thtupid!)
Little brothers can be exceeding dim with no effort at all.
Fine looking chunk - what C.17th? the fireback - or earlier perhaps?
ReplyDeleteIt sits in your hearth as if it had spent the last three centuries there! (Instead of in my garage).
P.s. 1679, and I think it's a right one, though cut down.
ReplyDeleteMike.
Vid ibidem what? I was so busy admiring it that I forgot to read the date on it. The style of the numerals supports your judgement of its rightness I believe.
ReplyDeleteeven the v-word lispingly agrees -CORTH
(as in 'corth it ith, thtupid!)
Little brothers can be exceeding dim with no effort at all.