Delighted antiques dealer discovers 1,300-year-old Knights Templar relic at car boot sale

Daily Mail ^ | 4th August 2009 | By Daily Mail Reporter

[Justaham]

"If you’re going to decipher Brit. speak about cars remember the boot is our trunk, the bonnet is our hood, the wind screen is our wind shield, a spanner is our wrench, petrol is our gasoline, left is our right and the manuals incomprehensible."

Additional Brit speak: "loo' for toilet, "macintosh" for raincoat, "pullover" for sweater, "anti-clockwise" for counter-clockwise, "pissed" for drunk,"blow me" for surprise me, "knockers" for breasts, "posh" for high class, "take a piss" is make fun of someone, and the classic "spend a penny" means going to the restroom.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Thank you!

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

I agree, it does look Byzantine.

The bottom figure does indeed to be wearing the garb of a Roman legionnaire, and I wonder if that is not intended to be Constantine. The problem, though is that the figure under the horse looks moorish to me, which would be anachronistic.

Here is a statue of Constantine:

The top figure appears to be Christ.

The second row could be a bishop on the left, and a Christian King on the right (Charlemagne?)

[count-your-change]

A friend asked what he should do to fix his old Jag and I recommended a small block GM engine. Deed done he had a pretty good car.

[Jet Jaguar]

Perhaps the expert, Technical Editor, could tell of its’ authenticity?

[count-your-change]

Yes, some of the electrical systems seem like revenge on the buyer.

[padre35]

It may have held the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch...

Templars did not muck about.

to me, the story seems all wrong, “1,300 yrs old” etc.

It looks Eastern Orthodox or Armenian Orthodox.

[shibumi]

The guy on the left in red is definitely Brother Maynard.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Lucas, the Prince of Darkness. Bert, you forgot the fluffless cloth.

[paulycy]

[count-your-change]

I was fluff-strated.

[SunkenCiv]

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[RDTF]

cool!

[Lizavetta]

Additional Brit speak: "loo' for toilet, "macintosh" for raincoat, "pullover" for sweater, "anti-clockwise" for counter-clockwise, "pissed" for drunk,"blow me" for surprise me, "knockers" for breasts, "posh" for high class, "take a piss" is make fun of someone, and the classic "spend a penny" means going to the restroom.

And "Asian" means anti-social Muslim immigrant.

[Dustbunny]

Neat !!!!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

It’s like “tailgate party” or “truck patch.” Stuff we make up to separate furrin’ spies from native citizens.

[Fast Moving Angel]

And make’m pay for it, too ... I like it!

[shredderman]

Now I’ve got to go home tonight after work and find my Holy Grail VHS copy! Thanks alot!

[allmendream]

Not just King Phillip the Fair of France, but also his “pet” Pope Clement V (rumor has it he had the previous less compliant Pope poisoned).

Jacques de Molay the last Grand Master of the Order of The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (the Knights Templar) supposedly demanded that the King and the Pope meet him “before the Throne of God” to answer for their crimes, and both died within the year.

[Ramius]

Charlemagne is who I first thought of as well, for that figure on the middle right.