To: higgmeister
My pleasure. Thanks for posting, looks like this one is going to be a dud. One never knows.
6 posted on
10/26/2021 11:59:46 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
It wasn't a dud for me. I looked for other articles about the once missing bronze statues and the history beyond it and the other artifacts. It's amazing they could show up unidentified in an auction after a few hundred years. It is also good to know that the Victoria and Albert Museum was able to reach the five million pounds sterling to purchase and restore the statues.
I also wonder about the unknown history that let successive kings and queens leave these near priceless art works in various storage locations to fade away.
7 posted on
10/26/2021 12:33:22 PM PDT by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
To: SunkenCiv
Also any time I see Lord Nelson's name I have to look. &nsp; Perhaps it is because I'm a half Nelson myself, although not traceable to anyone related the the Admiral himself.
8 posted on
10/26/2021 12:36:25 PM PDT by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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