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Presumably the batter ... or the battee to the pitcher 😆

I knew a similar feller. He kept birds of prey but lost his falconers glove while out walking in Hyde Park one autumn day, so had to try and find it by sucking up all the dead leaves. Yes, that's right. Our kestrel man hoovers in the park...

What a simply marvelous graphic. UK house prices shown in $. 😠

I tried your "link" and the server couldn't even find the site.

Presumably there is a small minority who might actually masturbate to porn sites and are willing to pay a small fortune to the chancers?

I definitely think it's been lightly cleaned in the past - the obverse fields and portrait neck have that slightly blue/grey colour which is not present between the legend or where the detail is more intricate. You can see the colour change from just below the legend. However I don't think it's disastrous by any means and is beginning to tone back.

Agreed, but it's kind of telling that they were used on bronze in a very limited way just before they came in for silver.

The rim nick is very minor and so are the spots. It's a very desirable example and at better than EF I'd say somewhere between £500 and £1k depending on where you sell it and who's bidding.

I've always thought the die numbers on bronze were simply an experiment before using them on silver.

I agree with the above. If the obverse 'cleaning' isn't obvious in hand, it could be a keeper if the price is right.

I agree - bags of lenses pay only a minor dividend over what you can get from the latest mirrorless cameras from the likes of Fuji, Olympus, and Panasonic. I have a Lumix LX100 and while it wouldn't yield professional results, can match many prosumer DSLRs. I like the m4/3 sensor particularly when matched with the multi-AR cameras from Leica and the Lumix LX series. Yeah. They do lack some of bells and whistles of cameras such as time lapse, but the gap is closing fast and really the newer iPhones and Samsungs deliver shots you'd be very hard pushed to tell from expensive enthusiast cameras.

Concomitant crudities...

Some ignoramus. Probably American, with all respect to our American friends on here.

OH pennies are very commonly found with variations of the position of the final digit. Arguably 1899 has the record for most variations. Are they true varieties or just carelessness with punching that final numeral as also occurs on the 1861-63 pennies? However if they float your boat then all power to your elbow.

The electronic geeks who ran the SU audio would hire out the equipment for the smaller bands whose PA wasn't up to it. I remember they'd set the volume on my amp to quite a modest level using one of the disco 45s. So I learned to give them an Elton John single for that purpose that was a particularly quiet recording, and so I had more to play with than they intended. Luckily they never caught on. 😀

I agree with most of this, but I am a pedant. 😉 Two of the worst crimes against English are.. the word 'attendee' (who is 'being attended' rather than 'attending'?) - 'attender' please 'electrocution' to mean simply getting an electric shock but not dying. The word is formed from ELECTRICITY + EXECUTION!!

I saw them 3 times and never disappointed. It must be utterly amazing for Guy Pratt to play bass with them - he was still learning when DSOTM came out and he became a fan!

What gear do you use?

Yes, the 1970 C&M annual indeed. I scanned the whole thing and I have it in Dropbox in case anyone is interested? I was right in that the 7 varieties were reduced to 4 after 12 months. I'm not quite sure what your 'parasites' reference was about - not very friendly whichever way you look at it.

Is the porcelain edition also available?

I remember when I was Student DJ in the early 70s, and the equipment I worked with was Quad. About the best you could get at the time.

It's not optional in the case of something like: my favourite foods are fish, chips and blancmange where it should be... my favourite foods are fish, chips, and blancmange which avoids the inference that I enjoy chips with blancmange, which is how it reads without the comma.

I've warned him to withdraw these replicas or they'll be reported to eBay.

Yes, and what a comedown from the 80s when I was a computer programmer for them, and we got generous staff discounts.

I'd be happy with a paper or digital format.