Here's a URL that won't break
http://tinyurl.com/dacre-rings*
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good picture!
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*Maggie Secara
~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Elizabeth Walpole <
ewalp...@grapevine.com.au> wrote:
> I assume you mean this image
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Nevill_and_Gregory_Fiennes_Baron_Dacr
> e_v.2.jpg
> I see 4 fingers, though the index finger on her right hand is at a slight
> angle I could see how you could potentially mistake that for a thumb, her
> thumb would be on the other side of the glove she is holding, so that makes
> the second finger from the top her middle finger and it has no rings,
> whereas all her other fingers do
> Elizabeth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
> Behalf Of Cin
> Sent: Saturday, 20 June 2009 1:10 AM
> To: h-cost
> Subject: Re: [h-cost] No rings on middle finger (was Black beads
>
> 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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