77 year old cat

This black mohair plush cat is standing with an arched back and upright tail. His eyes are green and his nose is pink.



It was manufactured by the German toy manufacturer, Schuco in 1935.



He now lives at The Victoria and Albert Museum.



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Secret message - received a little late

Secrets from World War II may have been found in a coded message
attached to the skeleton of a carrier pigeon found in an English
chimney.




The bird was found when David Martin in Bletchingly, Surrey, was renovating his fireplace.




Martin told the BBC that he began “pulling it down, pulling it
down…then the pigeon bones began appearing one by one by one. Down came
the leg with the red capsule on with a message inside.”



 More than 250,000 carrier pigeons were used in World War II. They were
called the National Pigeon Service and were relied on heavily to
transport secret messages.



 Government code breakers are working to read the message found in Martin’s chimney.



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Save your hair

Would you believe this bracelet is made of hair?

It's a Victorian snake coil
bracelet with 14 karat yellow gold and garnets and a woven hair band,
approximately 14" total length by 1/2" wide, snake head 2" long. For sale here.



 Hair
jewelry was the height of the romanticism and sentiment that
characterized
the Victorian era.



 Watch
chains and bracelets often show the most ingenious hair weaving
techniques with more
than one color of hair often used, as perhaps a chain given by three
daughters to their father.



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From Arabia to Royal Ascot - History of horses

Timed to coincide with the diamond jubilee, a British Museum tribute to
the horse charts its impact on humanity, from ancient times to the
present day.

 The Horse: From Arabia to Royal Ascot is at the British Museum, London WC1, until 30 September.



More photos here.