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“The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.” – Grace Kelly.
My maternal Grandmother may not have been a queen, but in many respects, she was very much like Queen Elizabeth II. Only six years older than the Queen and being a young woman in the 1930s and 1940s, she felt all her adult life that she could never been seen in public without wearing her pearl necklace, a double strand of graduating cultured pearls with a platinum, diamond and pearl clasp given to her by her parents when she was twenty-one, and her cultured pearl clip earrings which she was given to her by her parents when she was eighteen.
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday” for the 22nd of January “earrings”. I was originally going to submit a photo of some other family heirloom earrings in my possession, a pair of Regency ebony and ivory cameos I lovingly called Flora and Fauna when I was a child, but then I considered that I submitted them for the theme of “earrings” for the “Smile on Saturday” group last year. Instead, I have chosen these pearl earrings and necklace which remind me more of my maternal Grandmother than any other possessions of hers I own. These pieces of family jewellery have survived the Blitz and have travelled all around the world to places like Paris, Madrid, Aden and Cairo: they have signs of wear and age, but my what stories they could tell! These pearl earrings always make me smile and think of my maternal Grandmother, and the Queen. I hope that you like them too.
Poker, in itself, may be considered dangerous to one's financial status but this hand goes a step further. James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok (May27, 1837-August 2, 1876) was a folk legend of the American Old West. He was fatally shot in the back while playing poker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (Present-day South Dakota). He is alleged to have been holding 2 pairs (Aces and Eights) at the time of the event. The hand became known as "The Dead Man's Hand" and the superstitious has been considered bad luck and even dangerous. Such was certainly true for Wild Bill.
This is one for the group, Looking close….on Fridays! With today’s theme being ‘Soles’.
Inspired by that classic Hollywood film, The Odd Couple with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
This container featuring a classical bass relief of a girl dancing with a basket and bouquet of flowers, is a tobacco jar. Made by Wedgwood in the 1920s, it is made in the classic Jasperware blue Wedgwood are perhaps most famous for. This jar features three of the ten “flower girls” that featured on many pieces manufactured by the Etruria pottery. You might think it rather odd that a very masculine object (smoking pipe tobacco being a predominantly male pastime in the 1920s) should feature such a feminine design, however it was not unusual for items used by men to feature beautiful women.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 3rd of December is “blue on white background”. As soon as I read it, I immediately thought of my Wedgwood collection. I have many pieces in Jasperware Blue and Portland Blue. I even have a few pieces that feature both together. However, on a white background, I felt the Jasperware Blue was a more striking choice. I hope you think so too, and that this image makes you smile.
Wedgwood is a fine china, porcelain, and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 by the English potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. It was rapidly successful and was soon one of the largest manufacturers of Staffordshire pottery. Jasperware has been made continuously by the firm since 1775, and also much imitated. After buying a number of other Staffordshire ceramics companies, in 1987 Wedgwood merged with Waterford Crystal to create Waterford Wedgwood plc, an Ireland-based luxury brands group. After a 2009 purchase by KPS Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, the group became known as WWRD Holdings Limited, an initialism for "Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton". This was acquired in July 2015 by Fiskars, a Finnish consumer goods company.
A lone coffee cup and saucer I found in a charity shop and couldn't resist.
For Looking Close... on Friday!
I sharpen a pencil like this for italic writing – but not often these days.
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Pencil points this week.
Fruchtbonbon.
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Für“Looking close …on Friday!“ am 10.06.2022.
Thema:“Candy (Golosinas) #Süßigkeiten#
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I'm not a girly girl, or woman I should say :), so no bows in my house, just on some of my bra's.
This one has such a nice colour and lace, love that.
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The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Zipper this week. The pull tag broke so I replaced it with a small keyring.
(I wonder why they call zips "zippers" in the US?)
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday” Friday 8th of January is “calendar”, so I decided that before I wrote on my beloved Alphonse Mucha wall calendar that I buy every year, I would photograph a corner of it. The Alphonse Mucha image you see in the corner closest to us is a detail of “Têtes Byzantines – Blonde” (1897) which appears in my calendar on the month of September: my birthday month.
I wish all my Flickr friends and followers a brighter and happier New Year than the one we have left behind.
Alfons Maria Mucha (1860 – 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt.
A colourful collection of miniature colour pencils, each tip 1 mm in diameter, each tiny pencil 4cm long.
HLCoF to all participants ❤️💙💛
This beautiful butterfly insisted on landing on a hydrangea that is long past its best...so it's more fauna than flora!
My wife and I were first introduced to this delicious combination on our first vacation to Mexico 30+ years ago. It was prepared and served to us this way every morning. It has been a treat for us ever since.
Shot for Looking close… on Friday!, Summer Fruit
Vase mit Blumen:
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Für“Looking close…on Friday!“ am 15.04.2022.
Thema:“Cylindrical“ (Zylindrisch!)
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Seemed a good shot for Looking Close...on Friday and low_key theme. I visited a woman whose late husband had a collection of antique cash registers. Focus is the key buttons on this autographic cash register hidden under the brass cover.
From an email received by the owner of antiquecashregistercollector.com/ : "The machine is a National (Cash Register) Model 45. These are called autographic machines (create a copy of the sales receipt). Produced 1898-1911, this particular model was a mid range machine (in price)."
This antique autographic register is simply a wooden box with a gold plate that has an opening for receipts which is right below the glass window seen in the photo. The receipts were created using carbon paper. The buttons create a combination lock that only the proprietor knew in order for the machine to open the cash drawer. The box was taped up so didn't get a chance to look inside.
More Info: Antique National Cash Register Catalogs
1898 National Autographic Registers
Photo taken with Microsoft Lumia Camera. The phone became corrupted during an update last year and photos are missing the camera information but retain the date taken.
For the Looking-Close-on-Friday Group ' s theme "Silver and Gold" - my double ring made by an Irish goldsmith, silver with golden beads at the open ends of the rings. I have taken pictures of it for other Flickr groups because it really is one of my favourite rings and worn a lot as you can see.
HLCoF to all participants 💛💛
It's spring over here…in the southern hemisphere... but there are still some autumn leaves left in my garden.
Have a great day, everyone!
20250703_5066_R62-100 Pink Hollyhock
It is middle of winter and not many flowers around, apart from some tatty white roses and two or three hollyhock flowers.
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When I was a child, I grew up listening to my maternal grandmother reading faerie tales to me from a big (at least from a child's perspective) green leather bound volume of Grimm's Faerie Tales with fine gilding and marbled edges. However, that wasn’t the only volume she read from. She also introduced me to the wonderful characters created by Lewis Carroll through “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass” which she had in an omnibus edition from the 1920s in grey vellum with all the characters’ names written in ever reducing squares and font as a border to the title.
It is from these stories that I have taken my inspiration for the theme for “Looking Close… on Friday!” for October 13th, which is “mushrooms”. If you have ever read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, or seen one of the multitude of television and film adaptations, you will be familiar with the caterpillar who sat on a mushroom smoking a hookah who told Alice that eating one side of the mushroom would make her taller and one side would make her smaller. You would also know that the whole reason Alice first went to Wonderland was by following the White Rabbit, who was late for the Queen of Hearts croquet party, down a rabbit hole. The amalgam of these two things led to this pairing of macro photos. Alice and the White Rabbit are both miniatures who live inside a small jar terrarium that I was given as a Christmas gift by a dear friend some years ago, whilst the mushrooms with their luscious shiny red tops are hand painted polystyrene examples that I picked up from a craft shop. The woodland setting is a small patch of my garden where the clivias are. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile!
I would like to acknowledge and thank my Flickr Friend Red Stilletto www.flickr.com/photos/thevixen/ for inspiring me to use the pairing of two images and the application of a wide white frame. Both of these design elements she uses to create great impact with her own images.
The first patent in the United States for barbed wire was issued on 25 June 1867 to Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio, who is regarded as the inventor
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Spirals this week.
Schwarz und Weiß in Farbe. Steckengeblieben.
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I found this black and white feather on the way home in a field on the roadside. Then she lay on the garden table until I had stowed my bike in the garage – and until the wind blew her onto the lawn. Then she got stuck. I think she chose a very photogenic place ;-)
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Diese schwarzweiße Feder habe ich auf dem Nachhauseweg auf einem Feld am Wegesrand gefunden. Dann lag sie erst einmal auf dem Gartentisch, bis ich mein Fahrrad in der Garage verstaut hatte – und bis der Wind sie auf den Rasen geweht hat. Da steckte sie dann erst mal fest. Ich finde, sie hat sich einen sehr fotogenen Platz ausgesucht ;-)
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Nikon Micro-Nikkor-P / 1:3.5 / 55 mm