Inscriptions Watch. Have you got Inscriptions?

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♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Nov 2023 1:07pm, 8 Nov 2023 51,315 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Sorry to keep on and maybe I'll put this in a blog to free up the thread, but she lived at Normanhurst Court and I think that is what the penultimate line says!
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Nov 2023 3:06pm, 8 Nov 2023 51,317 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ I've blogged and I think we are nearly there ... !
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Nov 2023 2:15pm, 9 Nov 2023 51,323 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ V'rap shared a very ornate presentation plate in the front of a book awarded as a prize yesterday. Here is a rather more austere approach. The book is the first of a four-volume history book. The recipient is my maternal grandfather. I know nothing about the donor, other than what is shown on the page. It looks as of the book once graced the shelves of a chaplain who served overseas and then returned to the village of Walford, near Ross-on-Wye, which is where my grandfather grew up. Why the presentation was made is not recorded!
lammo Nov 2023 3:18pm, 9 Nov 2023 12,420 posts	0 lammo This is my only inscription i think, means something to me
lammo Nov 2023 3:19pm, 9 Nov 2023 12,421 posts	0 lammo This is the book
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Nov 2023 3:22pm, 9 Nov 2023 51,324 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ That's a fabulously flamboyant signature!
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Nov 2023 3:25pm, 9 Nov 2023 51,329 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ A really interesting combination of upper case and lower case lettering in the handwriting too.
lammo Nov 2023 3:34pm, 9 Nov 2023 12,422 posts	0 lammo I wonder what that tells us about the signer....
Velociraptor Nov 2023 3:36pm, 9 Nov 2023 66,214 posts	0 Velociraptor I have an inscription with a flamboyant signature but it's on the back of a large picture and I'm a bit wary of detaching it from the wall.
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Nov 2023 3:36pm, 9 Nov 2023 51,330 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ ... ?

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I get most of my reading books second hand. This means that sometimes I get lucky and there’s an inscription inside the cover. I like to imagine the two people that the book brought together, but then what led the recipient to give the book away.

I’ve just finished George Orwell’s Why I Write which is a collection of essays including the title one. Inside the cover was this:

In this case I imagine Yandell hides an unspoken love for Carr, and that the latter inspired...

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