Breakfast Links: Week of September 26, 2016

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• The amazing 19thc butter sculptures of Caroline S. Brooks.
• A humble skirt worn by an enslaved child finds a place in history.
• The mystery of the phantom page-turner.
• Native American captive Elizabeth Hanson,  a Quaker mother in 1724 New England.
• Explore all the treasures of the Red Drawing Room at Blenheim Palace in 360 degrees.
• Skeleton of a teenaged girl confirms cannibalism at Jamestown.
• Image: Gold leaf on Coptic shoes, making a fashion statement while strutting the streets of ancient Egypt.
• Fingerspitzenformer, otherwise known as a late 19thc fingertip shaper. Really.
• Danger and the amorous woman: prostitution in 19thc Britain.
• An inspired pot.
• Many questions from the title alone of this 1892 advice book to read online: "How to Get Married Although a Woman, or, The Art of Pleasing Men" by a Young Widow.
• Image: Enchanting c1915 autochrome portrait of a lady happily surrounded by her books.
• Inside the old-fashioned world of New York's vintage girls.
• Benjamin Franklin's silver court sword is coming up for auction.
• Why John Hancock's signature was so big and other hands FAQs about the Declaration of Independence.
• Image: Bonnie Prince Charlie's stunning silver-hilted broadsword, found on the battlefield after the defeat at Culloden.
• Domestic and imported woolen cloth in a medieval town.
• The Wolf's Water, coming from a historic London pump.
• Queen's House, Tower of London: the most complete high-status, timber-framed building in London that predates the Great Fire of 1666.
• The Countess Greffulhe, Proust's fashion queen, reigns again in a new exhibition.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.