‘Each bead represents the bust of a burgher or maiden on one side, and a skeleton on the other. The terminals show the head of a deceased man, with half the image eaten away from decay.’
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Thank you to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rosary c. 1500–1525
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Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs Identification Kit, 1960s
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The Mickey Mouse Gas-Mask, 1942
Tudor Bestiary, 1520
Miniature Camera, 1937
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Ortelius World Map, 1564
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Where is this from? I’m guessing its German, but I’d like to know.
Except it can’t be a rosary, because there are no Christian symbols at all on it, let alone any related to the Virgin Mary.