Michael-Roo

"All that glitters is not gold ... but it is very attractive toning. " Glisters, dear boy, glisters……

And farthings, but my field is early milled. I'm afraid bun ID leaves me baffled as they all look the same to me!

I've been viewing some of the terracotta, clay, etc. antiquities. The thing which struck me is, no matter what the period or geographical region of origin, they all seem to have the exact same 'aged' look about them.

I noticed this one from Stu too. The seller hadn't even bothered to remove it from the manufacture's packaging. Prize twerp.

Fair point.

Ah, Bullseye. Fabulous.

Yeah. I've spent the last two days turning over the ground, composting, levelling, and reseeding, in the back garden. In my mind I'm a snake-hipped, eye-linered, rock god. In reality, I'm hobbling about like an extra from Planet of the Apes muttering: '"Ooh me poor back, ooh me poor back'…..

I was 18. An old git.

No! No! No! Terrible! The Wombles would've been better. (laughs) That was a novelty record released to cash in on the last gasp.

Buzzcocks? Nowt wrong with them. First 'proper' 1976 band out of Manchester. I saw them play Eric's Club in Liverpool.

Punk/Post Punk-Glam Pete. Liverpool.

And your point is what? People get older and should be called to account for doing so? I'm sure you're an absolute vision of loveliness still. I was 'on the scene', so to speak, back then, so got to meet and work alongside a lot of interesting people.

Debby Harry Pete? Here you go. Read 'em an' weep…..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/sentosa-gold/m.html?item=173124296048&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

Desert Island Discs? Eight tracks, surely?

We lived in Cambridge in the early 1990s. I went to a few coin fairs at the Corn Exchange. Bootleg CD fairs too, I think.

I always thought them more as Surfing music on speed. I stood no more than a few feet from the amps at an Eric's show in May 1977. Small club. Low ceiling. Peter's quite correct. LOUD!

Mozart Purcell Stones (Jones era) Bowie (1968-73) Desmond Dekker Toots and the Maytals Velvet Underground Chuck Berry Pergolese Gluck Bessie Smith Cab Calloway Hank Williams Gram Parsons Byrds Laura Nyro Ute Lemper Steve Earle Emmylou Harris Beatles Bach John Dowland George Formby 'Hey-hey. Turned out nice again…..'

Thanks Rob. And any idea who Lord Waltham was when he was at home?

Here's mine.

It being one of the hardest to find of the series I thought fellow fans of early milled copper may be interested in seeing this. I rarely buy coins these days, and almost never from Ebay, but I'd noticed it listed at the weekend and, knowing how seldomly these are offered for sale, decided to have a pop. The coin came with the original owners ticket. Does anyone here know anything about Lord Waltham or the 1941 sale mentioned? You'll see too The Farthing Specialist (John Minshull?) had graded it in the 1970s as 'very good fine'. This seems a little generous these days, however, as my winning bid was only £31.01 (far below my maximum), I'm very happy with it. Apologies for the crappy photos. I don't have the iPad at the moment so have had to use my phone.

Note also the matching shapes of the I and A of Victoria on Georgie's coin and the copies currently being sold on ebay. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1850-Victoria-Shilling-copy/152911792039?hash=item239a40c7a7:g:HSwAAOSwNOJasVZN

Now now Pete, we don't want to frighten the horses, and it is Sunday, after all…

Just her head, neck, and shoulder.