Monica! As always, what a stunning collection you've put together for us. I'm a little depressed now though, because I have to live the rest of my life knowing I don't own even one of the octopus spoons, let alone the full double set, and sugar tongs, et al. It's a cruel world! Thanks also for sharing the Mysterious Book Shop channel. Between this and that gorgeous Italian jewelry designer, you are now the official curator of my YouTube time!
I’m actually from Melbourne, the setting of the Mystery of the Hansom Cab – got a much newer copy in my bookshelf. We don't have hansom cabs anymore, sad to say. The book was made into a movie in 1911, which lays claim to being the world’s first murder mystery feature film.
Oh god, also a follow up. That picture of Henry Cyril Paget in the Vogue article? Excuse me! I should have been prepared for such fabulousness, but I was NOT!
Oh this was a fun read! Substack picked a good one for Sunday morning reading...
I have a silver gimmel ring that was my mother's - she bought it in Williamsburg, I believe, back in the 70s. Love that ring, even if it only fits on my thumb. Years ago a jeweler advised that sizing it to fit my ring finger would be difficult and expensive.
Monica! As always, what a stunning collection you've put together for us. I'm a little depressed now though, because I have to live the rest of my life knowing I don't own even one of the octopus spoons, let alone the full double set, and sugar tongs, et al. It's a cruel world! Thanks also for sharing the Mysterious Book Shop channel. Between this and that gorgeous Italian jewelry designer, you are now the official curator of my YouTube time!
I want to inside-paint something.....
I’m actually from Melbourne, the setting of the Mystery of the Hansom Cab – got a much newer copy in my bookshelf. We don't have hansom cabs anymore, sad to say. The book was made into a movie in 1911, which lays claim to being the world’s first murder mystery feature film.
Gorgeous stuff in your newsletter!
Oh god, also a follow up. That picture of Henry Cyril Paget in the Vogue article? Excuse me! I should have been prepared for such fabulousness, but I was NOT!
Oh this was a fun read! Substack picked a good one for Sunday morning reading...
I have a silver gimmel ring that was my mother's - she bought it in Williamsburg, I believe, back in the 70s. Love that ring, even if it only fits on my thumb. Years ago a jeweler advised that sizing it to fit my ring finger would be difficult and expensive.
If my derriere were seated on a wooden bench being lifted by two live bears, the poor bruins' facial expressions would look just like that.