It's an hour later where this old lady sits. :yawn:
Re: Boy Scout collectibles Letter signed by Burnham
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I know I'm only a girl, but feel I'm crying in the wilderness. Post #6: Post #8
If??!!!! You only have to check eBay.
Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts but Burnham was a big influence on him. See post #8 of this thread. :happy:
@Natasha, think your input would be helpful with another post concerning a bust of Catherine the Great, if you would not mind taking a look....
Looks as though he & the author H. Ryder Haggard were acquainted. Burnham's entire life reads like one of Haggard's adventure stories.
It has always been my understanding that 'simba' is simply the word for lion in Swahili. They are using it in the comic to warn that a lion is...
A snippet from aforementioned book: [ATTACH] If the story about Fred & the Barotze warriors being told in comic book form is not based on this,...
Starting to suspect this was something printed for the Boy Scouts to tell them the story of how the organization was founded.
Barotze is a strong clue. Hope the link takes you to what I am seeing. From the description of the book Burnham: King of Scouts: Frederick...
Don't know why I do research when I could just consult etsy. This seller does have it as copper. Theirs has an explanatory label on the back in...
Hmm. Afraid I'm not any wiser. Perhaps it will be of help to someone else. To my less than expert eyes, metal does not appear to be brass or...
Waiting on the bank stood what kind of warriors? Can't quite read it. 'savage(?)___' I'm rooting for the lion.
I don't know about age; think it will help all of us to see the back as well. Was getting dizzy going back & forth trying to compare. Taken from...
I realized that where I placed that remark made it ambiguous. I was pointing out that Stephen may not be able to date the frame by the print or...
Come to my house & you could do the cat fur test. :joyful:
Turning my brain's subconscious search engine on. Much slower than Google, but sometimes finds stuff haunting some cubbyhole inaccessible to...
Excellent, thanks! Hope I'll remember the general look of them when next I see one. As Sherlock Holmes might put it, this has been in Gdansk, I...
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