I see all four fingers plus thumb on each hand, and a bare middle
finger (the only bare finger!) on each hand.
This has been a very enlightening thread! I'll have to stop wearing
rings on that finger...although some of my favorite rings FIT that
finger best....
--Ruth Anne Baumgartner
scholar gypsy and amateur costumer
On Jun 19, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Cin wrote:
See what you think of this one:
Frances Brandon Lady Dacre & son, Hans Eworth, 1559
It looks like she has only 3 fingers & 1 thumb showing on her right
hand. That's a big band on her middle finger.
--cin
Cynthia Barnes
cinbar...@gmail.com
From: Maggie <maggi...@gmail.com>
I know of one full length portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, and I
believe
I've seen a couple other examples (possibly German), but they're way
out-numbered. According the author of the book I mentioned, the middle
finger "is for fools", but he doesn't really say much else about it.
Although he does say a similar habit prevailed among the ancient
Greeks and
Romans and contemporary (1917) Hindus.
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