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Pardon the pun, but I couldn’t resist when coming across this snuff box on the Antiques Roadshow.


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Of course a new exhibition with that title had to open on Trafalgar Day.


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Following my recent post about poor Basil Hall's run-in with unhappy readers, I went on a chamber pot hunt, because I was curious if there were other unfortunate people whose portraits had ended up on the bottom of a jerry. Unfortunately, I wasn't very lucky, but at least I learned that William Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper magnate, ( Read more... )

Somebody got themselves a very expensive gift of French lingerie: Napoleon's stockings!


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