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This stool is being marketed as a "fidget to focus" stool to the ADHD market because of the discovery that movement and actions like doodling can help ADD types better focus. The rounded bottom allows the stool to rock back and forth. There is another stool called the Swopper that offers the same movement on a spring, but it is nearly $800 and this one is half the price. A little less if you get the child size which is what this is. It is made by a European company called Varier.
I tried it out at the recent CHADD conference and liked it because it helped my spine line up better. On the first day in my office it did make me feel much more productive, but that may be due to the Diderot effect. The need to clean up the surroundings when a new purchase is introduced.
Added a few half gems along the blue that had a bit of grout bleed, looks better l think.Glue now dried so blotchey parts disappeared.
AMERICAN PATENT MODELS
“The patent system…added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things”
-Abraham Lincoln
On April 12, 1790, President George Washington signed the first patent legislation in American history, securing to inventors the rights to protect, and profit from, their creations. The patent process was considered so important to the economic growth and security of the United States that, until 1836, every patent issued was signed by the president.
From 1790 until 1880, the U.S. Patent Office required patent applicants to submit scale models of their inventions, along with written descriptions and drawings, for the examination of the U.S. Patent Office. The American patent system was the only one in the world to mandate the submission of a model with a patent application.
Patent models served a practical purpose: to demonstrate the key components, usefulness, and novelty of innovations across a broad spectrum of industries and consumer markets. But they were also designed to please the eye; the models (typically no larger than twelve inches in any dimension) were often wrought by expert craftspeople, with the aim of impressing Patent Office examiners. Patent models are tangible representations of practical ideas, but they are also works of art.
I did the flowers & Jesus-Fish approx. a year ago & the client fresh out of A.I.T. came in to add the "Assist ,Protect ,Defend" to her hip.
(while we were there I did a bit of relinen' & tightening up of the color to boost her Tattoo.
Deputy Director Russ Marlan Presented Assistant Deputy Director of the Outstate Territory Greg Straub with his 20-year service pin. Congratulations, ADD Straub, and thank you for your years of service!
Additional 10292
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TitleL'estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 1-76); L'estoire de Merlin (ff. 76-216)
OriginFrance, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai)
Datec. 1316
LanguageFrench
ScriptGothic
Decoration233 miniatures in colours on gold grounds, within pink, blue and red borders, with penwork decoration in white, each above an initial in gold on a blue and rose ground with penwork decoration in white. 2 full bar borders with hybrid creatures, animals and human figures at the beginning of each text (ff. 1, 76). Numerous initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour and pen-flourished partial borders in blue and red extending the length of the page along the edge of each column. Rubrics in red added above each miniature (except ff. 209v-216). Instructions to rubricators at the bottom of pages, partially erased (e.g., f. 41v).
Dimensions in mm400 x 295 (290/5 x 240/5)
Official foliationff. 216 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end)
FormParchment codex
BindingPost-1600. Red leather with gilt fore-edges and Roxburgh family crest.
ProvenanceDated 1316 from an inscription on f. 55v.
Charles VI (b. 1368, d. 1422), king of France: listed in the 1411 inventory of his library (see Delisle 1907).
? Louis de Chalon Arlay, Prince of Orange (b. 1390, d. 1463).
The princes of Orange at Nozeroy: in the inventory of 1533 (no 5) and in the 1686 catalogue of their collection, (Additional 10292, 10293 and 10294 still bound together as no 5), (see Middleton 2006, p. 45).
Louis César de Baume le Blanc, Duc de La Vallière (b. 1708, d. 1780): his sale, Paris, 1783, lot 3989.
John Duke of Roxburghe (b. 1740, d. 1804), his sale, 1812, lot 6093. His family crest on the cover with motto 'Pro Christo et Patria'.
Richard Heber, book collector (b. 1773, d. 1833): the three volumes, now Additional 10292, 10293 and 10294 bought by the British Museum at his sale, 19 February 1836, lot 1488, for £131 5s.
NotesFull digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Now bound in four volumes: Additional 10292, 10293, 10294 and 10294/1).
The texts are related to Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, MS fr. 110, MS fr. 749 and MS fr. 96.
The text of ' L'Estoire del Saint Graal' contained in this manuscript is the shorter prose version of de Boron's verse romance, 'L'estoire de Joseph d'Arimathie', sometimes wrongly attributed to de Boron (see Ponceau, 1997 and Bogdanow, 2000).
The decoration is connected in style to Royal 14 E III and to the Rochefoucauld Grail or former Amsterdam, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, MS 1 (sold at Sotheby's, December 2010, lot 33), both containing Arthurian cycles.