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August 5th, 2020 
Before meeting with an untimely death at the hand of an unknown assassin in Rome on January 11th, 1996, master forger Eric Hebborn put down on paper a wealth of knowledge about the art of forgery.  In a book published posthumously in 1997, titled The Art Forger’s Handbook, Hebborn suggests the following three books as being the cornerstone to any good art forger’s library:
- E. Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, 10 vols, Librairie Gründ, France, 1960
- C.M. Briques: Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Hacker Art Books
- F. Lugt: Les Marques de Collections de dessins et d’estampes, 2 vols, 1st edn, Martinus Nijhoff, Amsterdam, 1991
Thus it would stand to reason that the same books should be of great interest to the international art collector.
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February 24th, 2026 
The holder of the letters patent has the nearly exclusive right of printing, publishing and importing the King James Bible and Book of Common Prayer within the United Kingdom’s jurisdiction. There are three exceptions which apply to this right. One is that the office of Queen’s Printer only extends to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Within Scotland the rights to the King James Bible are administered for the Crown by the Bible Board, which holds the office of Her Majesty’s sole and only Master Printers and which licenses the printing of the Bible, New Testament and Book of Psalms. The other two exceptions are that separate sets of letters patent grant the Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press the right to print and distribute the King James Bible and Book of Common Prayer regardless of who holds the office of Queen’s Printer.
The current holder of the office of Queen’s Printer is Cambridge University Press.
The Controller of HMSO is appointed by Letters Patent to the office of Queen’s Printer of Acts of Parliament.
Section 92 of the Scotland Act 1998 establishes the office of Queen’s Printer for Scotland, and provides for it to be held by the Queen’s Printer of Acts of Parliament. The Queen’s Printer for Scotland is responsible for administering Crown copyright in Acts of the Scottish Parliament, Scottish subordinate legislation and works made by the Scottish Administration.
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August 4th, 2020 
FORMULAS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Pineapple Frappe.
Water, 1 gallon; sugar 2 pounds of water. 61/2 pints, and simple syrup. 2 1/2 pints; 2 pints of pineapple stock or 1 pint of pineapple stock and 1 pint of grated pineapple juice of 6 lemons. Mix, strain and freeze.
Roman Sour.
Wild cherry syrup, 1 ounce; lime juice 1/2 ounce, and the half of a fresh lime. Place in a suitable glass, and cracked ice and fill the glass with carbonated water. Top off with a maraschino cherry and a toothpick.
Hot Weather Delight.
Into a 10-ounce glass place half an ounce of strawberry syrup, half an ounce of raspberry syrup, half an ounce of grape syrup, one egg, one and a half ounces of plain cream. quarter glassful shaved ice. Continue reading Formulaes for Re-Creating the Old-Fashioned Drug Store Counter
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August 4th, 2020 
To Clean Watch Chains.
Gold or silver watch chains can be cleaned with a very excellent result, no matter whether they may be matt or polished, by laying them for a few seconds in pure aqua ammonia; they are then rinsed in alcohol, and finally. shaken in clean sawdust, free from sand. Imitation gold and plated chains are first cleaned in benzine, then rinsed in alcohol, and afterwards shaken in dry sawdust. Genuine gold chains are first dipped in the following pickle: Pure nitric acid is mixed with concentrated sulphuric acid in the proportion of ten parts of the former to two parts of the latter; a little table salt is added. The chains are boiled in this mixture, then rinsed several times in water, afterward in alcohol, and finally dried in sawdust.
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August 5th, 2020 
STORE MANAGEMENT—THE SHIRK.
THE shirk is a well-known specimen of the genus homo. His habitat is offices, stores, business establishments of all kinds. His habits are familiar to us, but a few words on the subject will not be amiss. The shirk usually displays activity when the boss is around, and masterful inactivity when the boss is out of sight. Some times he makes a pretense of working, for the benefit of his fellow clerks. Now and then he comes out boldly and loafs openly, except on those occasions when the boss is in the neighborhood and perhaps not feeling any too indulgent. The shirk is quick to detect these changes in the official barometer. The shirk, of course, is always the last one at work and the first to depart. He takes all the sick leave permissible and generally manages to get a few days extra. Continue reading The Shirk — An Old but Familiar Phenomena
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August 4th, 2020 
ORIGIN OF THE APOTHECARY.
The origin of the apothecary in England dates much further back than one would suppose from what your correspondent, “A Barrister-at-Law,” says about it. It is true he speaks only of apothecaries as a distinct branch of the medical profession, but long before Henry VIII’s time they were recognized as a distinct branch, though the distinction may not have been a legal one.
The earliest mention I remember to have seen in English of an apothecary is one I have cited before in these notes, from Bardsley’s “English Surnames.” In 1273, says Bardsley, “the Mayor of York was one John Le Espicer, aut Apotecarius.” Here “spicer” and “apothecary”‘ appear to be convertible terms, but it is clear, from the passage in Chaucer alone. “Ful redy hadde he hise apothecaries,” that these were a distinct class, and Caxton distinguishes the “physician, spicer, apotiquare” from one another.
In England as in France, “Qui est espicier n’est pas apothicaire, et qui est apothicaire est espicier,” and as time went on the difference between them grew, the apothecaries confining themselves particularly to drugs. Your correspondent is rather unfair to the apothecarics when he says, speaking of them as a separate class, that they began as quacks. They began as assistants to the physicians. Earle, in describing the physician of his day, speaks repeatedly of “his” apothecary’s shop. They were subject to the supervision of the physicians, and stood to them in much the relation enjoined by the law of the Emperor Frederick II. regulating medical practice in the Sicilies.—Chem. & Drug., Sept. 1921
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August 4th, 2020 
Mocking Bird Food.
Hemp seed……….2 pounds
Rape seed………. .1 pound
Crackers………….1 pound
Rice…………….1/4 pound
Corn meal………1/4 pound
Lard oil…………1/4 pound |
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May 9th, 2021
the full text of the Hunting Act – 2004
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August 4th, 2020 
Furniture Polishing Cream.
Animal oil soap…………………….1 onuce
Solution of potassium hydroxide…. .5 ounces
Beeswax……………………………1 pound
Oil of turpentine…………………..3 pints
Water, enough to make……………..5 pints |
Dissolve the soap in the lye with the aid of heat; add this solution all at once to the warm solution of the wax in the oil. Beat the mixture until a smooth cream is formed, and gradually beat in the water until the whole is completely emulsified.
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August 4th, 2020 
Cleaner for Gilt Frames.
Calcium hypochlorite…………..7 oz.
Sodium bicarbonate……………7 oz.
Sodium chloride………………. 2 oz.
Distilled water…………………12 oz. |
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May 9th, 2021  Smith, Charles Loraine; The Billesdon Coplow Run *note – Billesdon and Billesden have both been used to name the hunt.
BILLESDEN COPLOW POEM
[From “Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq”]
The run celebrated in the following verses took place on the 24th of February, 1800, when Mr. Meynell hunted Leicestershire, and has since been known as the Billesden Coplow Run. It will only cease to interest, says a writer in the Sporting Magazine, when the grass shall grow in winter in the streets of Melton Mowbray. They found in the covert from which the song takes its name, thence to Skeffington Earths, past Tilton Woods, by Tugby and Whetstone, where the field, as many as could get over, crossed the river Soar. Thence the hounds changing their fox, carried a head to Enderby Gorse, where they lost him, after a chase of two hours and fifteen minutes, the distance being twenty-eight miles. Continue reading The Billesden Coplow Run
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May 9th, 2021 
The Hunt Saboteur is a national disgrace
barking out loud, black mask on her face
get those dogs off,
get them off she did yell
until a swift kick from me mare
her voice it did quell
and sent the Hunt Saboteur scurrying up vale
to the full cry of hounds
drowning out her wails
whilst down in the valley
the hounds did prevail
and now on me hearth hangs a fine tail
as me and my hounds share
a bucket of ale
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August 3rd, 2020  Vintage woodcut illustration of a Eel This dish is a favorite in Northern Europe, from the British Isles to Sweden.
Clean and skin the eels and cut them into pieces about 3/4-inch thick. Wash and drain the pieces, then dredge in fine salt and allow to stand from 30 minutes to 1 hour. Rinse off the salt, wipe the pieces dry, and rub them with a cut glove of garlic. Brush the eel with melted butter and broil until both sides are light brown. As an alternative, pieces may be sautéd in olive oil or other good salad oil.
Place the pieces of cooked eel on absorbent paper. When the pieces are cool, pack them in layers in a crock with a scattering of sliced onion, allspice, bay leaves, mustard seed, whole cloves, peppers, and mace between the layers of fish. Continue reading Pickled Eels
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