It is. But a lot of the fun of it for Americans is how it portrays the running of a great house and works in tidbits about life attended to by an...
From what I have heard of Queen Victoria's appetite, she ate everything with a bread pusher.
Welcome, Chandler. Interesting info on English table setting practices. Sure, but please select the choice to make any photos full size.
Natural pearls are only very rarely spherical, & command huge sums when they are found. Most of us have probably only ever seen spherical pearls...
One of the things that stuck with me from the movie Gosford Park was the explanation for why there was one fork with the pieces to the right of...
They're Greek, not Russian. Artist's name is Α. Μιχάνος, which would transliterate as A. Michanos, but I'm not finding anything in a quick...
More like filleted. If you get the chance, watch Martha show how it's done.
https://www.acsilver.co.uk/acsnews/2016/03/24/fish-knives-fish-forks-etiquette/ At the end of the section on What is a fish knife, there's a link...
There's a video out there in which Martha Stewart shows you how to use a fish knife. A lost art.
My first thought had been 'friendship cards', but since Dutchess wants to find more, 'calling cards' seems to be the term to search with. There...
This focuses on valentine cards, but includes a section on chromolithography: https://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v11/bp11-30.html
Welcome, Dutchess. It makes it easier for all members to see photos if you make them full size: [IMG]
I think you may also have left one off, even if you didn't have time to stay, maybe because you had an appointment to take tea with Mrs. Soandso,...
Or a tonic? It looks more like a flask than a vase.
If it didn't have your name on it, the lady who was 'at home' would have no way to know who was calling (& whether she wanted to be at home to...
The one with Uncas would be from Last of the Mohicans.
Maybe for cheese.
My mother collected things like this. The printing process is called chromolithography. Calling cards I think.
I didn't read all through the description, but have seen that same auto correct-assisted mistake before. Also: 'Wear consummate with age' and:...
You could have it in color: https://www.art.com/products/p12978282-sa-i2210958/charles-le-brun-the-descent-of-the-holy-ghost-1656-57.htm [IMG]
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