Another dumb year has come and gone – and it's time for MAD to announce the 20 dumbest people, events and things of 2009! We don't want to name names…but if we DID, here are some that would come up: Glenn Beck, Michael Jackson, Jon & Kate, David Letterman, Kanye West, Bernie Madoff, Chris Brown, Sarah Palin! Plus many, many other idiots! All this dopery, plus Spy Vs. Spy, the Fold-In, A MAD Look at the Great Recession and a bonus 2010 Sergio Aragones calendar! If you don't pick this issue up, it'll be the dumbest thing you do all year.
André Aleth Masson 1952 I stumbled upon this amazing ceramics show in Paris back in October. It was at the Thomas Fritsc...
GDL Auctions - Toowoomba (80) - 20th February 2016 - Lot: 502 - Ginger Beer - champ c/s t/t - 'A. Blockley, Launceston' - a lovely example and very hard to find. Condition: Very Good.
Switzerland. 100 Francs, 1925-B PCGS MS65
Switzerland. 100 Francs, 1925-B PCGS About Unc
My first class at Taupo Symposium was two days with Gwen Marston. Gwen was kind of the 'headline' act at Symposium. She had a special exhibition of her quilts showing at the Taupo Museum. She is a prolific quilter, book writer and quilt teacher and is wonderfully encouraging and knowledgeable. We spent time learning a few of her techniques for making small units, inserting thin strips of fabric and constructing different triangles and then we set to making our own small studies. These are our first lot hanging on the notice board and by the end of the second day we had almost filled the wall. I had lots of fun and I can see this type of work being useful for working out ideas and colour schemes and maybe a jump off point for bigger works. We had a wee break during lunch for the obligatory fire evacuation - no actual fire - but apparently there was a fire evacuation at the Wellington Symposium too. Will there be one at Manawatu in 2015?! These are my three studies that I had completed by the end of the two days. As you can see, I wasn't big on triangles - I did make some, but they didn't get used. I really liked the vertical energy created by using the long strips and then the little peeks of interest created by the striped fabrics and dashes of colour. I didn't want to stop and I reckon that's a sign of a good class! At the end of the second day, Gwen kindly did a quick run through of her quilts that she had shown at her lunch-time lecture. They were all wonderful, but I particularly liked this one's energy and depth of colour. (Hello Helen! She was our lovely angel (class helper) for the second day and she is also on the committee for organising the Manawatu Symposium 2015.)
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THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, Earl of Southampton, in silver by Thomas Simon, 1664 (later Stuart striking), 45mm, (40.85 g), (MIi 502/137). Toned, chased on bust, good very fine and rare. / Ex Matthew Rich Collection and previously Dix Noonan Webb Sale, June 2001, lot 1011. Also Glendining Sale, November 23, 1986, lot 311.
Donald Thom as the Mad Hatter in Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Royal Ballet Season 2014/15 www.roh.org.uk/productions/alices-adventures-in-wonderlan...
some penciled artwork by Joe Madureira.
GERMANY, Prussia, Wilhelm I, ten mark, 1872A (KM.502); Friedrich III, ten mark, 1888A (KM.514). Nearly uncirculated - uncirculated. (2)
R.B.COLLEY, Adelaide, two shillings and sixpence, currency note, November 3, 1852 (1852 printed), no. 502, on uncertain watermarked paper, signed by R.B.Colley, and on behalf of the Bank of South Australia D.Melville (?), stating on front 'Silver Notes, Issued upon Capital only, In consideration of TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE paid me by ..... I Promise to Pay Him or Bearer, on Demand, the sum of TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE in Bank Notes of this Province, on presentation of any number of these Orders amounting to even Pounds, here; or to not less than Five Pounds at the Bank of South Australia.' A further endorsement follows from the bank and signed, black on white (Vort Ronald p.20, Fig. 24, illustrates a similar example, type illustrated Vort Ronald..Shinplaster..p.33). Some folds and creases, minor discolouration on front and back, otherwise good fine and extremely rare. / Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 49 (lot 1621) from the Dr. Alan Nicholson Collection, and previously from Spink Noble Sale 36 (lot 2685).
