Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The enigma in the antiques shop.
Can anybody solve the enigma in the antiques shop?
It is an antique.
A wooden plaque - about 5 inches in diameter.
Who is he?
It is dated 1900. So I was thinking about the Boer War.
But he does look rather like Czar Nicholas.
And just what is the message on the reverse side?
In English - so that's a start.
What we have is
"To a Good C.F. Boy.......then a faint word which is unreadable. Could begin with capital A or C, seems to end with ed.
then Rable, Rabie
1904.
It would be good to know who the soldier is - a military leader of some sort,
Nigel and I spent a long time looking things up on the internet, trying out ideas.
It doesn't belong to either of us.
And the one who is selling it doesn't have a high price on it, because she doesn't know what it is all about either.
History and antiques can lead us to all sorts of knowledge.......or up blind alleys on a wild goose chase.
It was fun up the blind alley anyway.
It is an antique.
A wooden plaque - about 5 inches in diameter.
Who is he?
It is dated 1900. So I was thinking about the Boer War.
But he does look rather like Czar Nicholas.
And just what is the message on the reverse side?
In English - so that's a start.
What we have is
"To a Good C.F. Boy.......then a faint word which is unreadable. Could begin with capital A or C, seems to end with ed.
then Rable, Rabie
1904.
It would be good to know who the soldier is - a military leader of some sort,
Nigel and I spent a long time looking things up on the internet, trying out ideas.
It doesn't belong to either of us.
And the one who is selling it doesn't have a high price on it, because she doesn't know what it is all about either.
History and antiques can lead us to all sorts of knowledge.......or up blind alleys on a wild goose chase.
It was fun up the blind alley anyway.
