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Saturday, June 09, 2012

 
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VINTAGE 1955 WEHLMANN landscape. denmark-$313

What type painting presents itself well in a room filled with Mid-Century Danish furnishings? How about a Mid-Century Danish oil? It was accomplished by a Danish artist, and the rural lake / farming scene is someplace in Denmark. (There is a note on the back.) 




 
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RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

FEDERICI, CAMILLO (1749-1802- italian dramatist/actor. b in piedmont. real name giovanni battista viassolo. FC Nname from the title of 1 of his 1st plays-camillo e federico/ educated in turin + at a young age fond of literature + theater. early praise, he pursued it + obtained engagemets as actor + writer, married in 1777 + left the stage + mainly wrote. reputation foe comedies. german influences. 1802 undertook to do a collection edition when he became ill + died. pub of his works completed in 1818.

FEHMIC COURTS( FEHMGERICHTE/VEHMGERICHTE)- celebrated secret tribunals w/ flourished in germany fron end of the 12th c to middle of the 16th c +  w/ FROM THE EXTENT OF THEIR ORGANIZATION + the MYSTERY w/ surrounded their proceedings, inspired a feeling of dread in all who came w/in their jurisdiction. their origin uncertain. the traditional account is that they were instituted by charlemagne + pope leo III to prevent saxons from relapsing into paganism. more likely arose from relics of an ancient teutonic free courts. their immediate cause however, is to be found in utter lawlessness + disregard of authority then prevelent in germany, obliging the weak + peace-loving   to band together for protection against the outrages of the princes + nobles. the birthplace of the fehmic courts was westphalia, where they appeared after the deposition of henry the lion in 1179. the duchy annexed to cologne, + the archbishops appear to have a lot to do w/ it. fehmic courts subsequently  made it to other parts of germany. but not firm footed as in westphalia or red land. soon immense power + at 1st beneficial + upright, but in the end, converted into tyrrany until rule of law returned + they died- last in 1568. abolished in 1811 by order of jerome bonparte.

 a candidate for the court had to be b in wedlock, a xtian, + neither excommunicated nor outlairded, + not be involved in either side before a fehmic court. originally only matters of westphalia admitted. at  the candidate swore an oath to support  w/ all his powers the holy fehm, to conceal its proceeding "from wife + child, father + mother, sister + brother, fire + wind, from all that the sun shines on or the rain wets, + from every being between heaven + earth, " + to bring before the tribunal everything within his knowledge that fell under its jurisdiction.
he was then initiated into the signs by w/ members recognized each other + was presented w/ a rope + a knife, upon w/ were engraved the mystic letters S.S G.G. whose signification is still in doubt, but are supposed to mean stick, steine, gras grein(stone, rope, grass, green). the emperor was the nominal head of the fehmic courts. under him, the supreme president was the arch-bishop of cologne as duke of westphalia. the whole coutry over w/ the jurisdiction of the fehmic courts extended was divided into districts, in each of which there was at least 1 court,  presided over by a judge called a freigraf, or free court. along w/ him sat an indefinite number of assessors, but never less than 7, called freischoffen/freischoppen, in latin scabini. these freischoffen had the duty of bringing complaints before the courts, + of carrying out execution the sentences w/ were pronounced. there were 2 distinct sorts of fehmic courts-1 w/ held its sittings openly,
+ another whose proceedings conducted in secret. the open court, in one of its branches, exercized a jurisdiction i civil suits, + over offencesof a (judge judy) description, in w. cases it was unnecessary that a member of the fehm be uninvolved. the other branch of the open court took cognizance of all crimes of an ordinary nature. the accusor was always one of the freischoffen. the accused was cited by nailing summons during the night to the door of his house, or if his abode unknown, by fixing 4 copies upon a post at crossroads near where his supposed abode was. if the accused appeared, the accuser stated the case, + the investigation proceeded by examination of witnesses. the judgement was put into execution on the spot if possible. the secret court, fro whose procedure the whole institution has acquired its evil character, was closed to all but the initiated; anyone not a member on being discovered was instantly killed, + the members present bound under the same penalty not to tell, crimes of serious nature, + especially those that were deemed unfit for ordinary judicial investigation- such as heresy or witchcraft-fell w/in its jurisdiction, as also did appeals by persons condemned in the open courts. the accused if a member could clear himself by his own oath, unless he revealed the fehm secrets(fight club). if he were one of the uninitiated it was necessary for him to bring forward witnesses to his innocence from among the initiated, whose # varied according to the # on the side of the accuser, but 21 in favor of innocence was usually good to acquit.
the only punishment w/ the secret court could inflict was death. if the accused appeared, the sentence carried out at once: if he did not, it was made to the whole body, + the 1st to meet the condemned, put him to death. a knife w/ the cabalistic letters left by the corpse to show it was not murder.

 

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beheading after hands cut off.

 
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ANTIQUE PHOTOS 1890/1930 NSWI FAMILY bagdad/singapore-$61

It is astonishing to realize how one can be spun out of a whirlwind lifestyle of great wealth and fall into heart wrenching depression, poverty and suicide in just a few years, but it happened, and these photographs are images of a family who experienced it all. 

 
There are 19 images and two pieces of correspondence, one on a RPPC, but the other is a hand written letter; lengthy, sent from Singapore.



 
I believe that shows four generations of the Nawi or Nawy family – they used both spellings. The big card is messed up, but the 6 ½” by 5” photo is unharmed. Nearly the entire back of the 9 ½” by 11 ½” card is filled by a letter in English.

 

The guy holding a cane photo is a Real Photo Post Card with a note. “Do not think that your wish materialized by seeing me with the cane. I only carry it to chase away wild animals.”

 
I have no idea what that big machine is doing, but you can bet it does a bang-up job of whatever it is.


 
 The family lived in Baghdad and Paterson, New Jersey – buying oriental carpets in the former and selling them in the latter.


 
It’s an interesting letter. I’ll show you some highlights.
 The letter, dated Nov. 1930, is from Singapore . . . where the guy has decided to stay another year since business isn’t good in the States. He’d lost most everything in the market crash. Soon after, he took his own life.



 





 
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SATURN'S DAY BUTTER STAMP BLOGGING


Friday, June 08, 2012

 
RANDOM PRETTY

outside w/ my camera + noticed an ant on a tiny flower.

 

 RANDOM 9/11 AVOIDANCE TOUR

pabst complex

 
RANDOM OCT UP NORT TRIP

 
RANDOM MAY TRIP W/ THE DANES

 
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