BS: Golden Fibula

26 Apr 01 - 05:50 AM (#449665)
Subject: Golden Fibula
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

We know the Mudcat Fibula Mattock is one in a million but it seems there's another:
From today's Telegraph Online (I only look at it for the Matt cartoons , honest!)

Celtic gold clasp sold for £1.1m
A SIXTH-INCH long gold clasp became the most expensive cloak fastener in the world when it sold for £1,103,750 at auction in London yesterday. The third century BC Celtic fibula set an auction record for a piece of ancient gold jewellery when it sold for £1,103,750 The third century BC treasure set an auction record for a piece of ancient gold jewellery. It was bought by a New York firm of dealers bidding for an unnamed European institution.

The Celtic piece, known as a fibula, belonged to a European titled family in the 19th century before it surfaced in Chicago after the Second World War. It has been on display at the British museum since 1993.

It shows a young warrior surrounded by snarling animals symbolising an initiation ceremony into manhood. It has an ingenious locking mechanism and evidence suggests that it was worn regularly by an aristocratic owner.
RtS (you didn't tell us about your "titled European family" ,Fibs!)

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26 Apr 01 - 06:00 AM (#449671)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: Fibula Mattock

I KNEW I was of aristocratic bearing and titled ancestry, it's just that my family must have hidden it so well from me! "Initiation ceremony into manhood" - sounds interesting. Sure as hell beats the bone fibula I wear round my neck (it fell off the back of a digger, honest...). Cheers RtS!

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26 Apr 01 - 11:36 AM (#449852)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: Fibula Mattock

p.s. Does that make me a "Celtic piece" ("of skirt", perhaps)?

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26 Apr 01 - 12:49 PM (#449913)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: mousethief

I thought a "fibula" was a bone in the arm?

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26 Apr 01 - 01:00 PM (#449921)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: Fibula Mattock

Leg. Bone in the leg. That's the bone fibula I wear round my neck (it's a Viking bone pin made from a dog fibula, possibly). But I chose my Mudcat name after the safety pin type.

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26 Apr 01 - 01:08 PM (#449932)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: mousethief

Sorry, FM. Maybe I was mixing it up with the tibia.

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26 Apr 01 - 01:11 PM (#449935)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: Fibula Mattock

That's in the leg too! *G*

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26 Apr 01 - 01:12 PM (#449939)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: mousethief

Okay, I'll admit, those extremities weren't the part of the human anatomy I enjoyed studying in high school. :-)

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26 Apr 01 - 01:16 PM (#449942)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: Fibula Mattock

Yeah, legs are for squares, maaaann!
My favourite anatomical bits don't have bones in.

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26 Apr 01 - 01:18 PM (#449943)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: mousethief

Not to start with, anyway

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26 Apr 01 - 01:19 PM (#449947)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: Fibula Mattock

ho ho ho, smutmouse, I meant the eyes, the window of the soul! Shame on you!

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26 Apr 01 - 01:33 PM (#449960)
Subject: RE: BS: Golden Fibula
From: mousethief

Obviously this will become a bone of contention between us.

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