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17th century moustache grooming.
The barber makes house calls to carry out the curling, while his assistant heats the tongs.
Abraham Bosse, c. 1632-35.
(British Museum)
25 July: Feast of St Christopher #otd a saint created by wordplay (BM)
Owl dressed as a pilgrim with hat and drinking bottle c. 1500-49 (Rijksmuseum)
Otter with a fish in its mouth,
Gerard ter Borch (I), 1612
(Rijksmuseum)
28 June 1650: in the early hours #otd d. John Venn, regicide (Houghton Library/ Medal of Charles I, BM)
Today 24 June is the great feast of midsummer, that of the birth of St John the Baptist.
Apologies: but I couldn’t resist.
How it started. How it’s going.
(Rijksmuseum)
22 June 1665: A hero's funeral at #Westminster Abbey #otd for Charles Berkeley Earl of #Falmouth who had been killed at the Battle of Lowestoft