In a message dated 03/10/2000 5:18:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Apart from the allusion to 'victorian reconstruction' you are coy, nay
silent as to date (I'll agree
to having heard the name of Maggie Beaufort, but it's not clear whether
you want to say she was the
originator of this glassware). I wonder if you can offer us an
approximate date for any conjectured
original presentation of this interesting depiction?
>>
Unless there is another famous Margaret Beaufort, I think she means Henry
VII's mother. Thus the end of the 15th/ beginning of the 16th cent.
mark
PS The above mentioned Margaret B. did have an aunt by the same name, but we
are still looking at mid 15th cent.
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