I passed my blood test, and as a reward they have given me a whole four weeks until the next test. This will save a lot of time, car parking and pain. Not that there is much pain really, but I like to go for as much sympathy as possible.
This morning I continued putting stamp ingots on eBay. For those of you who don’t know, these are models of stamps made in silver. I knew such things existed because I’d seen them, but until Tuesday I didn’t know what they were called. I do now.
Silver Marks
Ironically for something called “The Empire Collection” the third mark, the one that looks like a cross and circle is an import mark, which means the ingots were made abroad. The others are the maker, .925 to denote Sterling silver and, at the end, an “E” for 1979. You’ll have to take my word for that, it’s a peculiar font for that series of date letters.
My current homework is learning about American coins, as I put some on earlier this week and realised I didn’t even have a basic working knowledge of the subject. It’s by no means my only area of ignorance, but it is one that has a good book to remedy the deficiency.
Not sure what I’m listing tomorrow, but I’m sure there will be something to do.
I would write more, but my card reader is playing up and I can’t access more photos.
Meanwhile, Julia was down at the Mencap garden watching butterflies and watering in the polytunnel. She had Orange Tips, Peacocks, Small Whites and a Common Blue.
In the shop we had to content ourselves with one single, droning fly.
Julia cooked tonight so we ate in a more sophisticated manner than normal – seafood linguine and rhubarb crumble (with rhubarb fresh from the garden). It’s nice to have someone else doing the cooking.
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I’ve never heard of stamp ingots before! I discover so many new things on your blog 🙂
It’s a real festival of useless knowledge on this blog! 🙂
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Dinner sounds absolutely delicious! How I envy you those peacock butterflies. My only consolation is that the hummingbirds have arrived in Maine, and either today or tomorrow, he will putting out the feeders. Now that he is retired, one of his new responsibilities is to be valet to the animals.
Ah, how I envy you the humming birds… sigh…
Today, today, the feeders go up. My wee camera doesn’t do the greatest job of taking pictures of those zipping beauties, but if I do get one this year, I’ll post it for you.
Thank you. I love the hummingbird photos. 🙂
I will do my best to get a picture for you this year.
Thank you. Don’t worry if you can’t – just write about it and I will use my imagination. 🙂
Will do! The feeders are out.
Thank you. 🙂
Jackie would have been rampaging after that fly with a swat 🙂
We’ll save it for her if she wants to pop by. 🙂
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Yesterday I saw a single Orange Tip and a single Small White. We also had our first Holly Blue. Those stamp ingots are very nice and very expensive, I suspect.
We started them at £4.99, which is below the silver cost of several of them. They were expensive in 1979, about £16 each, when the cost of silver was under £1 an ounce. Now that it’s about £11 they will probably sell for between £10 and £20 each, which is much better value.
I envy Julia her butterflies. We have had no colour yet.
We haven’t had many yet – hopefully this is the start of better days for all of us.