19th and Early 20th Century

Plique-à-Jour and Cameo Bangle Bracelet, ca. 1915

Masriera Y Carreras

Hidden-Stiletto Cane with a Six-shot pin-fire Gun

Dated: 3rd quarter of the 19th century

Culture: French

Measurements: overall length 89.7 cm

The grip is made of deer horn grip embellished with a silver ring-nut. The extracting the grip releases a six-barrel pistol (5 mm cal.), with grooves, similar to the pepperbox barrels, also marked “PARIS A J BREVETE” at the base. At the front, among the six barrels, lies the stiletto blade.

Happy birthday to Charlotte Brontë! A member of the prolific Brontë family, Charlotte published many works during her short life, including Jane Eyre and Villette. She often published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in order to avoid contemporary stereotypes of female authors. Enjoy these wood engravings of Jane Eyre and her flawed hero Mr. Rochester. 

Marie Curie (1867-1934), French physicist, in her first laboratory installed in a shed of EPCI, rue Lhomond. Paris (Vth arrondissement), 1896-1905.

Some mischievous kittens (are there any other kind?) and their Feline Friday adventures. Further proof that pictures of cats were popular long before the internet.

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Henrietta Rae painted Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854) in 1891. The image shown above is, in fact, of a chromolithograph after the painting rather than the painting itself.

The soldier Florence Nightingale attends to sits up in bed, his red uniform coat tied about his neck.

1854—when the painting is set—was the midst of the Crimean War, during which Nightingale gained her reputation as a nurse and a medical figure.