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Andrew McCabe

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Antiquarian books, Numismatics History. Modernism. Classical & African Art Literature & Culture #sicklecell, 🏳️‍🌈 dad, he/him. Woke af. 🇮🇪 🇳🇬

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · May 22

important mammals like me

#dogs

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 7h

I've been to Cuba 10 times, first in 1992 just after the Soviets ditched them

Absolutely sure that what keeps Cuba beautifully and backwardly in the 1950s, and impervious to regime change, is the embargo

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 13h

Intelligentsia meeting on my balcony
#party

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 13h

Normal day at home. Where's Austin? Probably in the vid somewhere
#party

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 18h

We are preparing for a big charity event in my apartment this evening so cast of thousands. This is the family lunch for the preparation crew

Everyone is looking at the camera except Austin #dogs who is looking at the roast leg of lamb 🤷

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 2d

From the UK:

We are unaware it's hard. We understand Mexican food = Chipotle and that there's no other kind.

We have awesome Indian food tho.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 2d

In late 1994 I was gifted a bead keyring in Kenyan-bracelet style by a Swahili speaking Rwandan national who had just arrived in Oman after fleeing the genocide. We met at an East African gay dance party on a beach in Muscat

Kelis was then 15. I hope the timing and circs allow us to remain friends

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 2d

LP records from Eclectica, Clapham

Bhundu Boys - Shabini
Tavares - Check it Out
Coleman Hawkins - Wrapped Tight
Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly

those 1970s stylings *sigh*

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 2d

Les Travaux d' Ulysse, Paris 1640. 57 plates after Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570) frescos for Galerie d'Ulysee, Chateau de Fontainebleau, engraved by Theodore van Tuldens (1605-1669), Flemish painter, printmaker & publisher. Fontainebleau frescoes were destroyed 1738; this book their only record.

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 2d

Blues and Turquoises at Home
#homedecor

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 3d

Autumn
#dogs

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 4d

New watch day

Grand Seiko hi-beat 36000 auto with arabic numerals. Dressy, not diving certified. The hi-beat movement has a surprisingly large 37 jewels given it has no complications aside from date.

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 5d

Renaissance Bibliographic Numismatic & Montfaucon shelves of my library

1 Bibliographies 1600s
2 Biblio Dekesel numismatic
3 Montfaucon IYKYK
4 Biblio 1500s
5 Numismatic standard refs
6 books Renaissance 1500-1550 8vo/qto/folio
7 books Renaissance 1550-1600 8vo/qto/folio
8 books 1600-1699 folio

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 5d

Party prep my home this weekend, co-hosted by Opal We-exist and my family for LGBT refugees from Africa fleeing persecution - violence, blackmail, imprisonment, police bribes etc - Uganda, Nigeria etc. All are welcome in my home. Good DJ good food. If you know me and are in London, welcome.

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 7d

Two of my favourite subjects, Vultures and archaeology

Dated remains to the 1300s CE in Spanish vulture nests included
- basketry
- sandal of esparto cord grass
- ochre painted sheep leather
- crossbow bolt
- ropes
- horsetacks
- slingshots
etc

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies

Click on the article title to read more.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 7d

The sad end of Marcus Fakana may have had its roots in troubled behaviour that followed his girlfriend's mum getting him sent to prison in Dubai for what is legal in the UK. May he rest in peace and may she be tormented by shame.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 7d

"31 U.S. Code § 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins" prohibits portrayal of a living person on quarter dollar coins, or of a living or recently deceased president on circulating one dollar coins. But that's it

The "1866 Act" miscited last few days refers to paper currency only

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 8d

Out for a smoke and a beer with Austin

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 8d

We are at the "who cares" stage

I used to vote Conservative. John Major, David Cameron when he made the coalition with Liberals etc. I haven't changed my political views one iota, but now the Labour party is too right wing for me, Conservatives don't exist, and the Liberals get my vote.

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 8d

FULVIO, Andrea, Illustrium imagines. Rome: Jacopo Mazzocchi, 15 November 1517.

1st ed. of earliest illustrated numismatic book. Portraits are taken from coins in Mazzocchi's own collection. Woodcuts by Ugo da Carpi, "certainly the result of a master at work" (Mortimer)

New in my library!

Colophon last page with Mazzochi printers mark, register of signature leaves, date, place and Andrea Fulvio's name

Caesar's grandmother facing the page with Julius Caesar with an enlarged wreathed portrait, putti and gryphon adorned borders

Alexander the Great, enlarged wreathed portrait like Caesars, some watercolour enhancements

Previous bookmarks including Taunton castle and a grilled ham and cheese sandwich

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 8d

I've never found one sadly but they come with different name combinations of the same type (copying 408/1 the later Calpurnius Piso type), as if it were an event hosted by various over time. This is the only one I currently have a photo of.

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 8d

An unusual numismatic use of the name Fronto

Apollo Horseman Lead Tessera imitating Crawford 408/1 denarius 2g43, issued by Fabia and Fronto, possibly an entrance ticket for games

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 8d

BBC Home Service or BBC Forces Programme

Because that's all there was. To stop German bombers triangulating their location off different radio tower frequencies, BBC radio broadcast just two channels each on identical frequencies across the UK with no regional differences or niche channels.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 10d

So the pictured house doesn't exist. It's a patch of ground and for a million dollars you get it plus a plan...

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 10d

Right! 2001 I believe

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 10d

A story by Piyumi Kapugeekiyana, exploring cultural ownership through the eyes of a museum curator has won this year’s 4thWrite prize

Charitha, a Sri Lankan curator, gets backlash after staging an exhibit on a replica of Tārā, in the British Museum

Her story:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The 4thWrite short story prize winner — a British Museum statue that belongs to Sri Lanka

Read The Original Is Not Here by Piyumi Kapugeekiyana, this year’s winner of the Guardian and publisher 4th Estate’s award for unpublished writers of colour

www.theguardian.com

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