Poor Frank Raw

At £4k I'll walk it over on the back of a burro :)

Mates rates 👍👍

To you, £4000 🤣

Thank you :) I'm hoping it won't sell 😁

OTOH I need to buy more slate and chisels, so...

It is about be hung in our bedroom. I'm hoping nobody buys it because I like looking at it :)

The dangerously affordable price (for a Cambridge college) means that they might call at any moment :)

I've been posting about this every 20 minutes for ages and now it is a) complete, b) photographed, c) in the shop, I can finally shut up about it. "Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by". Hand carved #lettering on Welsh slate, gold leaf details.

It's in the shop. I'll shut up about it now:

www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...

Thank you :)

A bad day at the printing press, London 1660.
lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/fbfb3...

This is what the inside of my head looks like.

My name is Poor Frank Raw (a letter carver who died in 1706) and I endorse this message.

50% of the population are of below average intelligence #fact

Oooh, lost one follower so far, I wonder how many more bigots and throwbacks I can shake out?...

I'm not even GFPO but the hospital which treated me will take my remains to be dissected and studied and I'm all for it.

I am one hundred and eleventy twelve.

People are people and what they have in their pants and what they do at home is none of my damn beeswax. Being a nice person is my litmus test, all the rest is bigotry and hate x

As you can see I don't follow back much 😶

Re another conversation, I should just point out that I have family and friends who are L, G, B, T, Q and a mixture of the above, so if you are following me and/or reading this and you don't want LGBTQ+ people to be visible, or indeed exist, then now would be a good time to fuck off. FYI.

I obviously attract a nicer class of arseholes. I've also been blocked by a few historian types. Presumably by being an LGBTQ+ ally and all the profanity. So fuck em.

I seem to be slowly gathering regular citizens as far as I can tell, except the odd "insert female name here" who follows me, DMs a Hello and gets blocked and reported in seconds.

The light was flat on to the wall just now, and I'm busy later. Might have another go tomorrow, if it isn't persisting down with rain.

I thank you. As soon as it is dry I'll oil the surface and photograph it :)

YouTube video by Frank Raw Sanding Silent Stars...

Painted, sanded, and now drying ready for oiling the surface:

youtube.com/shorts/itvsl...

Well that's cheered me right up.

Palisado Cemetery in Windsor, Connecticut is home to some of the oldest surviving dated gravestones in New England. This one marks the grave of Mary Gayler, who died in 1657, and it was carved by Matthew and/or George Griswold.

That R in the border. Continuing a tradition from early Roman inscriptions :)

FEAR-LESS, hand carved #lettering on High Moor #limestone from #Yorkshire

That's finished, ready for shipping to Oxfordshire next week. Now onto a teaser for a friend's socials... ;)