[Sca-cooks] Sotheby's sale with cookbooks

[Aruvqan]

On 6/30/2014 10:51 PM, Laura C. Minnick wrote:
> On 6/30/2014 7:37 PM, Aruvqan wrote:
>> Hm, and I have a good recipe for gall ink, some galls out on the oak 
>> out back, Phlip has some rusty iron we could use. Anybody speak latin 
>> and have a good hand? We could have serious fun if we could slip it 
>> into the Vatican library ... anybody fancy writing a Papal Bull 
>> letting women become priests? <evil grin>
>>
>
> Heh. I just came across a letter the other day, from Alcuin of York to 
> Charlemagne, in which he notes that he has extra parchment left, so he 
> put some math puzzles for the emperor's amusement in the empty space- 
> and if he (Charles) had trouble solving them, he should ask Einhard 
> for help, because he's really good at that sort of thing.
>
> I found this far too amusing, and I've been getting a lot of mileage 
> out of the story. :-) Maybe we should add some math puzzles to that 
> Papal Bull?
>
> Liutgard
>
I love the idea of pranking - I always thought that it would be a blast 
to do stuff like have a Dutch Master portrait of myself, with the 
tiniest little fang tips sticking out and claiming that it was an 
"ancestress of myself" in good vampire style, or making up some table 
using proper techniques and finishes [we used to watch Lovecraft on TV, 
or as we called it, The Guide to Furniture Forgery in Britain. Between 
that and my mom's books on antique identification Rob could fabricate a 
number of different items fairly easily. ] It is not a crime to sell 
something as long as you do not claim it is anything that it is not - it 
is not my fault if you think that my chair is a real Chippendale side 
chair. There used to be quite the market here in New England back in the 
60s, canny old farmers would have a barn or attic full of crap with what 
looked like a great antique chair and antique dealers, wannabes and 
morons would go driving out in rural Connecticut or Maine or wherever, 
stop at yard sales and such and buy antiques - and getting rooked by 
people faking that old chair that has been here forever and just taking 
up space ... and very carefully not claiming it is a whatever. Not the 
sellers fault that the buyer is an idiot trying to get such a deal for 
that ugly old chair by thinking it is something specific but not letting 
the seller think it is any good. Not my fault you think this modern 
piece made exactly like a Jacobean side table because we made it 
specifically of the right type of wood, made it look right in style and 
finished the top with an orbital random buffer using pigs blood and 
brick dust [to get the finish buff with a lambswool pad by hand, getting 
the poor apprentice's cracked and bleeding hands blood into the finish 
... ;) ]

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