I like the bit about the ghostly skull in the helmet, and the parrot.
I have a lovely story about an African Grey Parrot, named Pete with
a dreadful smoker's cough in Brandfort, Orange Free State...... But
he was not a Kipling scholar, unless Kipling coughed a lot - Perhaps
he did!
Does anybody know?
Best wishes, Ron in Hong Kong
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At 09:09 AM 12/17/00 -0000, you wrote:
From: "Michael Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Ron Clibborn-Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: "John Radcliffe" <[log in to unmask]>,
"David Richards" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Re: Antique Kipling Memorabilia
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:09
Dear Ron - I'm afraid that I don't really have anything to add to the
details of the vesta holder given by David Alan Richards. I do have one
but it is not a sponsored one. Just made by Macintyres of Burslem. I have a
cigarette pot too. I will find out from Peter Merry if there is such a
thing as a catalogue of the varieties. He has a tremendous collection.
Although it doesn't show up on the heavy pottery ones there is in the
original printing a ghostly skull within the helmet on the ground. We did a
TV programme recently on the A-M-B material for Collectors' Lot - and Peter
has some nice anecdotes about the use of the fund. One was that money was
provided for the support of a parrot belonging to one of the soldiers down
in S.Africa.
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