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sucrelefey in little_details

So that's what they look like

Jun 05, 2007 09:16

I am going to give rather than receive today ( Read more... )

canada: history, #resources, 1830-1839

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nokomarie June 5 2007, 16:39:52 UTC

Only a comment. COOLIEOS!

archangelbeth June 5 2007, 18:06:03 UTC

Ooo, nifty! (Can't think of questions yet, though.)

syntinen_laulu June 5 2007, 18:06:52 UTC

What makes it a "Jacobite" table - has it got Stuart badges or slogans carved on it? I thought at first that that might be a typo for "Jacobean", but it doesn't look old enough to be that.

sucrelefey June 5 2007, 18:26:19 UTC

I didn't see any heraldry or such on the table. It looks like is missing some bits on the wood on the underside.
I'll have to ask them on that one. I do know there are some Scot ancestors in the tree. Might have something to do with the great great grandfather in kilt portrait.
You kinda have to pry the stories out of these folks, drives the restoration guy loopy.

randomstasis June 5 2007, 18:59:29 UTC

I think what syntinen_laulu meant was is it really associated with the Jacobite rebellion, or is it from the Jacobean period:) (the terms get mixed up a lot-your expert might have written it down wrong)
Either way- SCORE!! thanks so much for posting the pics!

sucrelefey June 5 2007, 19:05:43 UTC

The family, restorer, the heritage society and government office that gave the yay/nay on exporting it from England in the 50s and the previous insurance folks all listed it as a Jacobite table now what they mean by that I just don't know.

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nokomarie June 5 2007, 22:47:56 UTC

Heartbrakingly beautiful work. My husband sneers, however; "Spinster at thirteen? Somebody wasn't trying." Such a charmer, that man.

We have a family christening gown made by an aunt in the 1890's. It's lovely but not such finical work. Treasure it while it lasts.

syntinen_laulu June 6 2007, 12:44:59 UTC

[i]My husband sneers, however; "Spinster at thirteen? Somebody wasn't trying."[/i]

What on earth does he mean? I think it would have been just about technically legal to marry at 13 in 1837, but it would have been unheard of. Only in the gentry and aristocracy did girls marry in their late teens at all; mid-20s was the normal age in the population as a whole.

nokomarie June 6 2007, 12:55:18 UTC

Oh, you know perfectly well he was just being a tiresome jerk and making his version of a clever joke. Yeah, he knows all that already without me telling him. Jeez, lighten-up I hear it's good for the heart.