It’s Always Tea Time
“It’s always tea time,” said the Mad Hatter.
This week the Flickr Friday theme is "watch”, and I immediately thought of the Mad Hatter from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland when I read it.
Thus I have placed an antique fob watch atop an illustration from Alice in Wonderland by one of my favourite contemporary children’s illustrators, Charles Santore (1935 – 2019).
The antique pocket watch and its fob are made of sterling silver. Being solid silver, the chain is particularly heavy. Made in Birmingham in 1928, each piece including the fob and every link in the chain is hallmarked. Just shy of its one hundredth birthday, it keeps excellent time, unlike the Mad Hatter’s pocket watch. However, he did use butter in its gears, which, in spite of the crumbs from the butter knife he complained of, probably did it no good anyway.
It’s Always Tea Time
“It’s always tea time,” said the Mad Hatter.
This week the Flickr Friday theme is "watch”, and I immediately thought of the Mad Hatter from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland when I read it.
Thus I have placed an antique fob watch atop an illustration from Alice in Wonderland by one of my favourite contemporary children’s illustrators, Charles Santore (1935 – 2019).
The antique pocket watch and its fob are made of sterling silver. Being solid silver, the chain is particularly heavy. Made in Birmingham in 1928, each piece including the fob and every link in the chain is hallmarked. Just shy of its one hundredth birthday, it keeps excellent time, unlike the Mad Hatter’s pocket watch. However, he did use butter in its gears, which, in spite of the crumbs from the butter knife he complained of, probably did it no good anyway.