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
Except that, for some strange reason, a star was added to the end...
Here's a functional one:
http://tinyurl.com/dacre-rings
Should work better :-)
And yes, her index finger is curved, which is why some of you
interpreted it as a thumb - but it's much too long to be a thumb, and
in the wrong
I believe I have the (full length, BW) portrait I'm thinking of in a book
at home, but I'll have to check later. If I find it, I'll scan and post it
for general perusal.
MaggiRos
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Maggie maggi...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe I have the (full length, BW) portrait I'm thinking of in a book
at home, but I'll have to check later. If I find it, I'll scan and post it
for general perusal.
Well, it wasn't in the first 3-4 places I looked. It's
As a side note, I was in a public place in San Francisco yesterday, and saw
two men who obviously knew each other, each wearing plain band rings on
their left middle fingers. I don't know if they were in San Francisco for
our Pride event this Sunday, and it was some Gay usage I don't know about,
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
Looks like she has her glove between the forefinger and thumb, hiding the
thumb, so that means the empty finger is again her middle finger. And she has
more rings on than Mary QoS!
Kimiko
--- On Fri, 6/19/09, Cin cinbar...@gmail.com wrote:
See what you think of this one:
Frances Brandon
--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Maggie maggi...@gmail.com wrote:
Just as a sidebar... notice that there are NO rings on the
middle fingers.
Look at portrait after 16th century portrait and this is
what you find 90%
of the time. and not just in England. People are almost
never shown with a
ring on a
Wow, my learned thing of the day! Went to my stash of
portraits-with-blackwork out of curiosity, and not one single middle-finger
ring - even on the folks wearing a ring on every other finger.
Amazing the things you never notice! :-)
Liadain
THL Liadain ni Mhordha OFO
You get a wonderful
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
I had heard about the fool's finger elsewhere online, and I remember smiling in
recognition when I read it in your book. It has made me not put rings on that
finger at faires, and I am trying to get my friends to do the same, but most
continue to do so.
By your comment of Mary QoS, I went and
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