Peckris 2

The priority slots are also filling up so I grabbed one for 11th May to be safe.

I'd love to create a font that's all the same height - it would come out like this: aBcDeFGHiJKLmnoPQrsTuvwxYz (I had to mess around with "Size" to get that to work - in my theoretical version, the upper case letters would be the same height as the lower case).

Roll on end of lockdown...

If I don't get a slot there is a Facebook group of local volunteers who can do shopping for me, plus I have a weekly carer/enabler who can get stuff for me when she does a Tesco shop for her own family. I'm not stuck for means of getting food just yet..

Agreed. Dorset Coins were a very welcome table at the Midland in the 90s, and Ernie was always friendly and obliging.

I'm on the Tesco priority slot list - they just asked me a few questions, unlike Waitrose who insist you have to be on the government's (narrowly defined) database.

Not even VAT Out Of Hell?

That too is interesting. Unlike the OH pennies, there is a great uniformity between 1883 and 1894 which sounds counter intuitive but it's nevertheless true. So a variation like that one is definitely worthy of note.

Now that is one that WOULD grab my attention! Good one.

I've returned to Tesco. Getting a home delivery slot from Waitrose is IMPOSSIBLE, and M&S don't do online foodhall shopping. 😢

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To be honest, there are too many to be interesting IMO. It's always the final digit in the date and nothing else, nothing. It would be like collecting every single variant of 1861 and 1862 pennies where the position, angle, space, slant, of the final digit varies with just about die used. Once you started you'd never stop. No disrespect intended to Michael Gouby but recording all these micro differences as distinct varieties doesn't seem to be a worthwhile exercise. That's my two pennorth anyway.

He was celebrated in the first (or second?) Age Of The Image series, which should still be on BBC iPlayer. A real talent who never published outside his immediate circle, and wasn't discovered until much later.

Presumably the batter ... or the battee to the pitcher 😆

I knew a similar feller. He kept birds of prey but lost his falconers glove while out walking in Hyde Park one autumn day, so had to try and find it by sucking up all the dead leaves. Yes, that's right. Our kestrel man hoovers in the park...

What a simply marvelous graphic. UK house prices shown in $. 😠

I tried your "link" and the server couldn't even find the site.

Presumably there is a small minority who might actually masturbate to porn sites and are willing to pay a small fortune to the chancers?

I definitely think it's been lightly cleaned in the past - the obverse fields and portrait neck have that slightly blue/grey colour which is not present between the legend or where the detail is more intricate. You can see the colour change from just below the legend. However I don't think it's disastrous by any means and is beginning to tone back.

Agreed, but it's kind of telling that they were used on bronze in a very limited way just before they came in for silver.

The rim nick is very minor and so are the spots. It's a very desirable example and at better than EF I'd say somewhere between £500 and £1k depending on where you sell it and who's bidding.

I've always thought the die numbers on bronze were simply an experiment before using them on silver.

I agree with the above. If the obverse 'cleaning' isn't obvious in hand, it could be a keeper if the price is right.

I agree - bags of lenses pay only a minor dividend over what you can get from the latest mirrorless cameras from the likes of Fuji, Olympus, and Panasonic. I have a Lumix LX100 and while it wouldn't yield professional results, can match many prosumer DSLRs. I like the m4/3 sensor particularly when matched with the multi-AR cameras from Leica and the Lumix LX series. Yeah. They do lack some of bells and whistles of cameras such as time lapse, but the gap is closing fast and really the newer iPhones and Samsungs deliver shots you'd be very hard pushed to tell from expensive enthusiast cameras.