Andrew McCabe

New watch day

Grand Seiko hi-beat 36000 auto with arabic numerals. Dressy, not diving certified. The hi-beat movement has a surprisingly large 37 jewels given it has no complications aside from date.

Renaissance Bibliographic Numismatic & Montfaucon shelves of my library

1 Bibliographies 1600s
2 Biblio Dekesel numismatic
3 Montfaucon IYKYK
4 Biblio 1500s
5 Numismatic standard refs
6 books Renaissance 1500-1550 8vo/qto/folio
7 books Renaissance 1550-1600 8vo/qto/folio
8 books 1600-1699 folio

Party prep my home this weekend, co-hosted by Opal We-exist and my family for LGBT refugees from Africa fleeing persecution - violence, blackmail, imprisonment, police bribes etc - Uganda, Nigeria etc. All are welcome in my home. Good DJ good food. If you know me and are in London, welcome.

The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies Click on the article title to read more.

Two of my favourite subjects, Vultures and archaeology

Dated remains to the 1300s CE in Spanish vulture nests included
- basketry
- sandal of esparto cord grass
- ochre painted sheep leather
- crossbow bolt
- ropes
- horsetacks
- slingshots
etc

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The sad end of Marcus Fakana may have had its roots in troubled behaviour that followed his girlfriend's mum getting him sent to prison in Dubai for what is legal in the UK. May he rest in peace and may she be tormented by shame.

"31 U.S. Code § 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins" prohibits portrayal of a living person on quarter dollar coins, or of a living or recently deceased president on circulating one dollar coins. But that's it

The "1866 Act" miscited last few days refers to paper currency only

Dog. Ashtray. Beer.

Out for a smoke and a beer with Austin

We are at the "who cares" stage

I used to vote Conservative. John Major, David Cameron when he made the coalition with Liberals etc. I haven't changed my political views one iota, but now the Labour party is too right wing for me, Conservatives don't exist, and the Liberals get my vote.

Colophon last page with Mazzochi printers mark, register of signature leaves, date, place and Andrea Fulvio's name

Caesar's grandmother facing the page with Julius Caesar with an enlarged wreathed portrait, putti and gryphon adorned borders

Alexander the Great, enlarged wreathed portrait like Caesars, some watercolour enhancements

Previous bookmarks including Taunton castle and a grilled ham and cheese sandwich

FULVIO, Andrea, Illustrium imagines. Rome: Jacopo Mazzocchi, 15 November 1517.

1st ed. of earliest illustrated numismatic book. Portraits are taken from coins in Mazzocchi's own collection. Woodcuts by Ugo da Carpi, "certainly the result of a master at work" (Mortimer)

New in my library!

I've never found one sadly but they come with different name combinations of the same type (copying 408/1 the later Calpurnius Piso type), as if it were an event hosted by various over time. This is the only one I currently have a photo of.

An unusual numismatic use of the name Fronto

Apollo Horseman Lead Tessera imitating Crawford 408/1 denarius 2g43, issued by Fabia and Fronto, possibly an entrance ticket for games

BBC Home Service or BBC Forces Programme

Because that's all there was. To stop German bombers triangulating their location off different radio tower frequencies, BBC radio broadcast just two channels each on identical frequencies across the UK with no regional differences or niche channels.

So the pictured house doesn't exist. It's a patch of ground and for a million dollars you get it plus a plan...

Right! 2001 I believe

The 4thWrite short story prize winner — a British Museum statue that belongs to Sri Lanka Read The Original Is Not Here by Piyumi Kapugeekiyana, this year’s winner of the Guardian and publisher 4th Estate’s award for unpublished writers of colour

A story by Piyumi Kapugeekiyana, exploring cultural ownership through the eyes of a museum curator has won this year’s 4thWrite prize

Charitha, a Sri Lankan curator, gets backlash after staging an exhibit on a replica of Tārā, in the British Museum

Her story:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Me and a chimp trying to take my watch, background, another man has an earnest conversation with a chimp

Me and a chimp jumping on me, about to successfully take my glasses

Heartbreaking but lovely orphaned chimpanzees and me at Tchimpounga Natural Reserve, Republic of Congo, managed by Agence Congolaise de la Faune et des Aires Protégées with the Jane Goodall Institute:
janegoodall.org/portfolio/tc...

my life has given extraordinary opportunities
#janegoodall

Practical numismatic research at the American Numismatic Society and at New York International Numismatic Convention

The Julius Caesar aureus is provenanced to before 1873 In Orleans, France

Advert in a guide to Dublin; Aer Lingus via Bristol on DH86, 1936-1939; MV Munster built 1938 but sunk 1940. Refs. to "Éire" (pre 1949) and German Legation (pre 1945). No refs to wartime measures.

So, 1939.

High Tea at 1/9 (cold cuts, egg, potato). NOT same as Afternoon Tea at 1/- (cakes sandwich)

Good selection. Wonder do other numbers work so well

Images as per captions below

Great article on how Bond villains have the very best taste in architecture.

Detail I liked: Frank Lloyd Wright was asked to create a scenery version of FallingWater for North by Northwest but asked for % takings so Hitchcock faked it

Supervillains get the best lairs - on.ft.com/4nIxykk via @FT

A copy of Strada's and Gessner's enormous 1559 Imperatorum Romanorum Verissimae Imagines has just popped up on Abe. 118 woodcut medallion portraits of Roman emperors, opposite inscriptions, every page in elaborate frames of grotesques putti cherubs and fruit. Signed by the woodcut artists.

I want.

Bynneman's 1588 translation of Appian's history of the Roman civil wars and a banana, at home

That vellum had been handled, abused, smoked on, had wine spilled on it, for 450 years. You seriously think the outside of a banana is gonna harm it?

Something Baroque and German I suppose 😁

All the UK migrants whom I know personally had biometric UK identity cards stating their right to reside in UK.

Rather absurdly given yesterday's news, in October 2024, these biometric residence permits were abolished and replaced with an online-only eVisa record.

Probably 20 years of stories judging by wear, before it was lost. Do you think she is clipped or are the edges damaged by knocks and corrosion? I tend to suspect latter as clipping is more straight edges.

"Boomer" as a slur infuriates. I'm a late boomer, born 63. Co-parent three kids, two Black, one Mixed, one gay, one has two mums, I host home events for an African refugee charity. Every bed/couch in my flat always full - we need the space. And I pay lotta tax, 60% marginal. What am I doing wrong?

Northern Powerhouse Rail plans delayed again The BBC understands the prime minister will now not announce plans for a rail link between Manchester and Liverpool at the Labour Party conference.

🤷

BBC News - Northern Powerhouse Rail plans delayed again - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Desk pic as described

1000 large paperclips, because my last buy of 200 proved insufficient. After experiments, non-paperclip attachments don't work but sandwiching book cover between library card & small index card does, & respects book

Antiquarian books on table 1500s Renaissance. Pile on floor folio vols from 1600s.

I don't know who is more relaxed in this little #dog vid: me as an onlooker, the twins nurturing Austin, or the puppy being pampered.

I don't know the word but can confirm that book scanning doesn't make the book redundant due many issues such as quality of scanning that may call for a redo, and all sorts of physical aspects such as the nature of the paper, how images and letters were impressed etc. Same may apply to video?