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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 January 2013 at 23:45 |
Could someone post up a picture please now that the explanation is known?
Sounds like Steve's work to me
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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 January 2013 at 01:36 |
Mine has arrived, with a nice personalised orangish gold stamp.
What is that at the top middle? I don't want to influence anybody, but has it got bells on? |
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Murgatroyd
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 January 2013 at 01:41 |
Could it be a jester's hat?
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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 January 2013 at 01:44 |
Here you are .... |
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Joolz
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 January 2013 at 05:35 |
I can read the signature on the invitation card more clearly on that scan, Steve, than I can on the invitation card I received myself.
It's another clue to Theodore Hook of course, him being T. Hook and the signatory of our invitations being H. Took.
Although, if I had been able to decipher it, it might have taken me down an erroneous Hobbit hole of inquiry rather than to the correct answer that Daniel found.
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Jonty
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 January 2013 at 06:02 |
The one I received today has the usual invitation then adds " She wishes to discuss some private investigations of rather a delicate nature with you"It is then signed as above in Steve's post. The lower left and right corners contains "J" and "H"
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Keegan
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 January 2013 at 03:13 |
Hi All,
I was lucky enough to receive an intriguing invitation myself yesterday. The envelope and finely gilded invitation contains most of the same details as already reported but my letter was posted in the Bath/Bristol area, the bottom corner letters on my stamp are 'NK' (what an uncanny coincidence!) and Mrs Sanderson wishes to discuss island holidays in the Bristol Channel with me, I'm on it!
Some very clever work has gone into this and I am astonished by the high standard of detective work employed. Didn't bother with any of that stuff myself because my plan was to jump in any black cab as the driver would surely know Mrs Sanderson and her residence.
However I'll have to disuade her from her original plan as I would much prefer to take her up the Orkneys.
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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 January 2013 at 03:27 |
No coincidence I think. The stamps seem to be personalised. |
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Hilary
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 January 2013 at 05:44 |
I have been invited to discuss the archiving of her family documents. I'm sure they will be fascinating.
Another extraordinarily clever artefact and stamp, from the department of extraordinarily clever artefacts and stamps. (We know who you are - no use being coy!) |
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Daniel
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 January 2013 at 05:53 |
Thank you on both counts The date of the hoax varies from one source to another but I dismissed the date given in Wikipedia in favour of a much more detailed account from The Museum of Hoaxes: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_berners_street_hoax/ At the bottom of this excellent article is a link to a contemporary account, The Annual Register for the Year 1810 (published in 1812) which gives, one assumes, the correct date. I doubt that even if the entire forum descended on The Sanderson Hotel we could replicate the chaos of the original event! Hook sounds like a very interesting man but he clearly had too much time on his hands. He went on to found the John Bull newspaper and the biography 'The Man Who Was John Bull ' is currently still in print. |
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