You will need to add your name to the list—allow me to send you the address of my assistant, Mr. Igor, who records such for me.
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((OOC post in case people missed it:
Victor’s in London now! Feel free to send in any asks related to him residing at Purfleet Asylum, visiting with any of the people he has scheduled, etc.))
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Oh! what an exquisite combination of chocolate-covered caramels, peanut brittle, and opera creams.
This, along with the macaroni cheese, has restored me wonderfully.
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La Mode illustrée, no. 11, 13 mars 1898, Paris. Collet de voyage en vigogne noire doublé en tartan vert et bleu. Collet anglais en drap nuance sable. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
[[MORE]]Collet de voyage en vigogne noire doublé en tartan vert et bleu.
Ce collet se compose de deux cols retombant l'un sur l'autre, garnis aux bords et au milieu par derrière, avec des bandes ayant 6 centimètres de largeur, pour lesquelles on emploie l'envers de l'étoffe. Les deux cols ont des devants étroits, fermés en se croisant l'un sur l'autre et munis de revers, garnis de deux rangées de grands boutons de nacre. Le col Médicis haut est fait en vigogne noire à l'extérieur, en tartan à l'intérieur.
La toque en velours noire, est garnie de plumes d'autruche noires.
Black vicuña travel pelerine, lined in green and blue tartan.
This pelerine consists of two collars that overlap one another, trimmed along the edges and down the center back with 6-centimeter-wide bands, for which the reverse side of the fabric is used. Both collars feature narrow front panels that fasten by crossing over one another; they are fitted with lapels and trimmed with two rows of large mother-of-pearl buttons. The high Medici collar is crafted from black vicuña on the exterior and tartan on the interior.
The black velvet toque is trimmed with black ostrich feathers.
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Collet anglais en drap nuance sable.
Ce collet fait en drap sable, est doublé de taffetas changeant; on fixe sur le collet des bandes piquées verticales en drap sable. On pose dans le sens de la longueur sous les bandes piquées une bande de drap prise en biais, piquée quatre fois, ayant 2 centimètres ½ de largeur, couvrant le bord supérieur du volant. Les bandes de drap verticales se continuent sur le volant et se terminent en pointes, ornées chacune de deux boutons de nacre. Le col haut est fendu trois fois; le collet est fermé devant par une patte, munie de deux boutonnières. Chapeau en grosse paille sable avec calotte en soie sable, garni de plumes d'autruche de même couleur.
English-style collar in sand-colored cloth.
This collar, crafted from sand-colored cloth, is lined with iridescent taffeta; vertical rows of topstitching in the same sand-colored cloth are applied to the collar. Running lengthwise beneath these stitched rows is a bias-cut strip of cloth—topstitched four times and measuring 2.5 centimeters in width—which covers the upper edge of the ruffle. The vertical cloth strips extend down onto the ruffle, terminating in pointed tips, each adorned with two mother-of-pearl buttons. The high-standing collar features three vertical slits; the collar fastens at the front with a tab fitted with two buttonholes. A hat of coarse sand-colored straw, featuring a crown of sand-colored silk, is trimmed with ostrich plumes of the same shade.
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L'Art et la mode, no. 11, vol. 19, 12 mars 1898, Paris. Dessin de Nada. Nice 98. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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L'Art et la mode, no. 11, vol. 19, 12 mars 1898, Paris. Initial letter. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Bordure verticale Jasmin (Vertical Border Jasmine), Verneuil, M. P. (Maurice Pillard), 1869-1942; Imprimeri
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La Mode illustrée, no. 10, 6 mars 1898, Paris. Robe pour jeune fille de 15 à 16 ans. Toilette de promenade avec paletot pour fillette de 14 à 15 ans. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
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A journey that lasted over two years
Lt. Augusto Benetti fell in Tucruf (1896). Only in 1898 did Modena receive his body, welcomed by order of Mayor Francesco Zironi.
Memory, loss, and a community united.
Read the story:
https://www.tildosacchinischool.it/archivio-sacchini/francesco-zironi-25-maggio-1898/
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L'Art et la mode, no. 8, vol. 19, 19 février 1898, Paris. Au bord de la rivière. — Dessin d'E. Debat-Ponsan. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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18 February 1898.
It struck me to-day that in my urging to D, that all should be recorded (for I fear the loss of memories entirely when we begin to remove them), that I should follow my own advice. It may be prudent for future success to have all events written down.
Thus far, I have dissected both hearts—the Count’s, and the one of a man in Bukovina he obtained for me. There was less difference between them than I expected, and I cannot doubt but that these differences may be only in that they come from two separate sources. Alas! Were there a human variant of the Count’s heart, it would be an easier task to compare. Yet giving back to him his humanity is the entire purpose; it is folly to desire the solution in order to analyse the problem.
It is too annoying to me, so in the mean time I have turned to another task. D has grown weary of my prodding him with the needle (neither of us possess the desire to sit still for long), so I have taken to the work of reproducing his blood—much as his heart. My attention, at this time, is directed toward constructing a small electrical machine, which shall do the reproduction for me, that I have a constant and plentiful supply. This will doubtless be exceedingly useful to us as our work continues.
D is calling now for supper. I have no appetite, yet the delightful scent of his roast chicken allures me…
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Forgive me for one moment, I believe that there is a coloured ink here…
Yes, excellent! I am now to write as colourful as you.
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Das ist in Ordnung, aber dann werde ich nach deinem Abendessen nicht lange bleiben. Ich werde selbst noch etwas essen müssen.
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La Mode illustrée : journal de la famille, no. 6, 6 février 1898, Paris. C'était seulement à la petite ferme des Houx qu'avait été découvert le lait qui convenait à Miriam. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
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465 Peugeot Type 15 8hp Twin-Cylinder Double-Phaeton (1898) by Robert Knight
Via Flickr:
Peugeot Double Phaeton (1897-01) Engine 8 hp twin cylinder
Country of Origin France
Production
Body Double Phaeton
Chassis Number 439
Engine Number 174
Registration Number CH 71 (Derby)
PEUGEOT ALBUM
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Armand Peugeot produced his first prototype car as early as 1880 and in 1891 produced a batch of five cars each slightly different from the rest. He had been in contact with Gottlieb Daimler and Emile Levassor and formed a collaboration to produce cars with a Daimler patent engine, produced by Panhard Levassor under licence.
By 1895 he had decided to go his own way, tiring of the family firm he founded SA des Peugeot at uAdincourt in 1897 then in Paris from 1900. The new company produced 323 in 1899 and 500 in 1900. The light cars had rear mounted engines, while the heavier cars had their engines under the front seat. By 1902 the designs were modernised by Louis Delage, who remained with the company until 1905
Peugeot ended its Daimler partnership and produced their first in-house engine for this car, made in their recently built Audincourt factory. Their transversely mounted flat-twin was a departure from this prior foreign-made V-twin engine. The Peugeot Type 15 has a horizontal 8hp twin-cylinder engine displacing approximately 2.2 litres, which drives via four-speeds-plus-reverse gearbox, making it an advanced design for the day. It also has an early form of governor-controlled ‘cruise control’, with hot tub ignition
This car was delivered new to its first owner a resident of the Muriac region of France, on the 16th July 1898 The Peugeot must have been well cared-for during its early life and subsequent storage, as by the 1950s, when the car came into the possession of the Museo di Rodo at Uzès in the Gard department of southern France, it was complete and un-restored. When the museum closed in the 1980s, It then came to England selling at a London auction, it was then comprehensively restored retaining most of its original parts, and in more recent times has been a regular entrant in the annual London to Brighton Veteran Vehicle run, as well as a winner of the Regents Street concours.
Pictured here in the Bonhams enclosure at Prescott prior to being offered by Bonhams at their Golden Age of Motoring sale in New Bond Street, on the 4th November 2022, where it sold for a record £494,500 inc. premium
Diolch am 96,761,159 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 96,761,159 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 07.08.2022, at the VSCC Prescott Speed Hill Climb, Prescott, Gloucestershire REF 162-465
