You get tonight's star prize!
The Charing Cross to Bank omnibus
Price Realized £34,655
signed with monogram (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
A well-dressed young lady is at the point of embarkation on her journey, holding her skirt off the ground in anticipation of climbing the step into the carriage. Her sense of propriety and dignity is about to be challenged by this inelegant and yet necessary gesture. She appears to be trying to persuade the conductor to allow her dog in the omnibus as he has indicated that the animal should be placed on the top. Whilst the girl and conductor exchange flirtatious glances, inappropriate given their different social status, they are being watched with great disapproval by the well-dressed gentlemen and the elderly lady seated further in the carriage.
Nice one PHarvey,
Knew straight from Jimbobpedia's head it is The iron pillar of Delhi, India, is a 7 m (23 ft) high pillar in the Qutb complex, notable for the composition of the metals used in its construction.
Calligraphy at first glance looks Chinese but! is not.
STEVE G wrote:I've never seen anything like that before but to me it looks like a metal casting; are they coins that are still attached to the sprue from the mould?
Very close Steve.....
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
just for info mate you dont cast chainmail links...they would be too brittle if you did. You make each link out of "wire", which is why its the most time consuming form of armour to make. Its also the heaviest.
In the UK I had a chainmail T shirt made from armour grade steel....it weighed 12 kgs, so imagne how much a full length full sleeve hauberk weighs. A lad at Uni had one, and said it was actually pretty easy to wear as the wieght is supported on your shoulders and at your hips by the swordbelt.
WETA Workshops made the stuff for LOTR mainly out of plastic.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
STEVE G wrote:I'd never seen anything like that before and I must admit that it was a knowledge of engineering rather than history that gave me the clue:
Come on you guys... at least pretend I'm giving a semi difficult question!!