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- Page 22, January 7, 1979 - Sunday News

- Roundels and other. oddities _

“At: ‘the’ end of the year,
there’s always an.accumulat-
ion of bits and pieces. of
information - some interes-

_ ting, some amusing - that,

for one reason or another
didn’t make it into print.

“deference. to the blind Earl of 7
‘Coventry. In fact, though,

the pattern was available to
the general public several
years before the earl lost his
sight.

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~—-For- examp te, roundels"~

“were wooden platters. about
the size of dessert plates, the
undersides: of which were

carved with inscriptions Or —

verses. These were given as
New. Year gifts:

One reader ‘might consider

--~such_—information_.a_gem_ of...

A quiz fan was a fan with
peep holes used to preserve
the owner’s modesty while
keeping. — her
guessing.

ee

wisdom, while-another might
call it merely trivia. What-
ever, it seems a shame to
commit it to the trash can
without first letting the

* reader have.a stab at-it, ‘so...

eet

A_person who collects

‘

autographs is
graphist.

ese*¢

. The Blind Earl pattern, a
raised design of leaves and
rose buds on porcelain
produced by the Worcester
factory, was said to have
been originally devised in

a philo-

made during Elizabethan
times and now in England’s

Victoria and Albert Museum,
is just under 11 feet square.

Shakespeare referred to it in
“Twelfth Night,’’
Chauncy’s ‘‘Hertfordshire’’

‘tells how a dozen couples

slept in it together in such an
arrangement that no man lay ©
next to any women but his |
wife.

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Early Scottish money
boxes made -of pewter were
known as Pirley-pigs.

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The ‘popular - blue and
white aWillow Ware. china
pattern is said:to ‘depict the
romantic story of- the
daughter of a rich man-

darin. Her father locked her.

in his palace, but her “lover

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i mandarin to a river,. where.”
-) they took a boat to temporary
“ safety. -

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_ but..the -gods,
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The Loo table wasn't

designed to fit in a British
bathroom; it was named after

- a popular mid-Victorian card

game.

" An early practical joke.was
the: fuddling ® cup.* “Actually
three cups attached in‘a tight*-" -
triangle with small “holes .
passing from the inside of.
each to the other two, the:
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