EditorialInk set, Ink set consisting of an elongated blade on legs with attached thereon: a pen holder, an ink pot and a sand spreader. The blade has a straight raised edge with an engraved zigzag line on the outside. The ink set is marked: mt. = Egidius Pieter...
EditorialCutting crow that served to prick the Beliers, Zangenrabe, big tongs, which are used to grab rams and thus render harmless, signed: A. De Putter fecit, Pl. XXIV, Tom., I, Pag., 75, after p. 75, Putter, A. de (fec.), 1774, Polybius; Vincent Thuillier; J...
EditorialThe problem with Capote bonnets: two women's deep-brimmed bonnets collide as they greet each other, while fashionable men watch. The bonnets with long sides were obviously invented by pretty coquettes who wanted to prick the curiosity of men and keep t...