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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

"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

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 4d

Out for a smoke and a beer with Austin

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

Right! 2001 I believe

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 6d

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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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 6d

Heartbreaking but lovely orphaned chimpanzees and me at Tchimpounga Natural Reserve, Republic of Congo, managed by Agence Congolaise de la Faune et des Aires Protégées with the Jane Goodall Institute:
janegoodall.org/portfolio/tc...

my life has given extraordinary opportunities
#janegoodall

Me and a chimp trying to take my watch, background, another man has an earnest conversation with a chimp

Me and a chimp jumping on me, about to successfully take my glasses

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 9d

Practical numismatic research at the American Numismatic Society and at New York International Numismatic Convention

The Julius Caesar aureus is provenanced to before 1873 In Orleans, France

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 10d

Advert in a guide to Dublin; Aer Lingus via Bristol on DH86, 1936-1939; MV Munster built 1938 but sunk 1940. Refs. to "Éire" (pre 1949) and German Legation (pre 1945). No refs to wartime measures.

So, 1939.

High Tea at 1/9 (cold cuts, egg, potato). NOT same as Afternoon Tea at 1/- (cakes sandwich)

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 10d

Good selection. Wonder do other numbers work so well

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 11d

Great article on how Bond villains have the very best taste in architecture.

Detail I liked: Frank Lloyd Wright was asked to create a scenery version of FallingWater for North by Northwest but asked for % takings so Hitchcock faked it

Supervillains get the best lairs - on.ft.com/4nIxykk via @FT

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 11d

A copy of Strada's and Gessner's enormous 1559 Imperatorum Romanorum Verissimae Imagines has just popped up on Abe. 118 woodcut medallion portraits of Roman emperors, opposite inscriptions, every page in elaborate frames of grotesques putti cherubs and fruit. Signed by the woodcut artists.

I want.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 12d

Bynneman's 1588 translation of Appian's history of the Roman civil wars and a banana, at home

That vellum had been handled, abused, smoked on, had wine spilled on it, for 450 years. You seriously think the outside of a banana is gonna harm it?

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 12d

Something Baroque and German I suppose 😁

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 12d

All the UK migrants whom I know personally had biometric UK identity cards stating their right to reside in UK.

Rather absurdly given yesterday's news, in October 2024, these biometric residence permits were abolished and replaced with an online-only eVisa record.

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Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 12d

Probably 20 years of stories judging by wear, before it was lost. Do you think she is clipped or are the edges damaged by knocks and corrosion? I tend to suspect latter as clipping is more straight edges.

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