Word: enameling
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...Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust of the Queen. Inside the reverse side is another portrait of Elizabeth by Nicholas Milliard. On the back is an enamel picture of the Ark, floating safely on a calm...
...Author is young (33) but considered by many a critic the most portentous cloud on the French literary horizon. A brilliant writer, he is no worker in enamel. His rare epigrams ("Youth is a religion which, in the long run, a man has always to retract") are the only tricolorations in his style. The world he writes of, in terms of savagery, torture, bloodshed, is too death-ridden to be neat...
...Daimler Co., Ltd., rents additional cars from Daimler Hire, Ltd., sells old equipages to The Car Mart, Ltd.-all three motor firms holding royal warrants. Less candid are Their Majesties' little extravagances and their sale of whatnots. Thus Her Majesty probably spends more pounds buying Imperial Russian enamel and ikons from Wartski & Co. on Regent Street than on any other self-indulgence. But the fawning Messrs. Wartski hold no royal warrant, even though they have also sold intimate things for King George, such as the chronometer of the royal yacht. Not to be confused with the Regent Street Wartskis...
...very best. In one of his armor rooms, the finest save for Madrid's, he will see ancient Turkish bridles and reins studded with emeralds the size of walnuts. He will be able to handle the only absolutely authenticated Cellini in the world- an exquisite ebony, gold, and enamel saltcellar...
...teakwood and cream enamel Royal Train parked one night last week on a siding near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat...