Tamara wrote:-
Extremely rare is right :) And, I always thought that a Stanhope
was some kind of a horse-pulled vehicle, but it seems to mean a
spangle here?
I believe a Stanhope - in this context - was a kind of C19th tourist
souvenir. There was a tiny lens that you looked through to see a
A Stanhope (in this instance) is a little place (read hole in the side) you
look in and you can see a scene inside, sometimes it's a crest of some kind
of words, but usually a picture of some tourist attraction, Big Ben,
Tintagel, anyone's castle, a lovely picturesque English village, a field
with
