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Do you remember the old saying/verse? What a wonderful bird is the Pelican His mouth can hold more than his bellycan!

... Mr. Merritt was perhaps best known for a limerick he wrote in 1913 for a signed column: A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But I'm damned if I see how the helican. From - www.nytimes.com/1972/01/11/archives/d-l-merritt-wrote-lim....

American white pelican ? Pelecanus erythrorhynchos - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_white_pelican

Looking at the 25", this could be Dublin Zoo, near one of today's elephant pools Check the fencing behind this stag in this definitely-Dublin-Zoo pic in the nli catalogue from the Independent 1934-35: IND H 2893

Fashions would say earliest is 1920s. The two women are wearing very similar dresses and gloves, with different hats and shoes - sisters?

EST. 1728 There are almost three hundred year’s of stories buried in our walls. ... ...
... There is speculation about how the bar acquired it’s current name ‘The Purty Kitchen’. The local narrative is that an American visitor, who had embarked at Kingstown port, walked up to the door of no. 4 and said to the proprietress, “Say Mamm, you sure have a mighty purty kitchen. ...”

From - www.purtykitchen.com/

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via Dawn Sparks


via Slainte TV

Note: The original and not the imposter in Temple Bar

Welcome inside

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Via Trove, an 1894 description - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115549483?searchTerm=%...

" ... On the side of this road, past Monkstown, and about a mile from Dunleary, an excellent wayside inn was to be met, where thousands of people resorted, some for refreshments on their way to the sea coast to enjoy the sea breeze ; others went to the grounds to dance, pitch quits, play skittles, and drink genuine Irish whisky or Alley's famed ale at this house, well known as the 'Purty
Kitchen.' How the house received this name I know not, but I have no doubt it was in consequence of the coppers and pewter plates and dishes upon the dresser. These were kept more for ornament than use, and made as bright as hands could polish them. In fact everything about the kitchen was in first-class order, and it was laughable to hear some of the ladies and gentlemen from Thomas-street and the Liberties of Dublin saying: "Oh, then, Jim, isn't it a purty kitchen? Look at the beautiful coppers and pewters."
Jim would likely reply after this fashion: "Faith and it's myself would like to be sitting forninst one of thim dishes with a pig's head lying on a palliasse of cabbage upon it, and some good cup potatoes, and a quart of Guinness's stout to wash my dinner down."
"Just like you, Jim, always thinking of your stomach."
So the fun would go on at the 'purty kitchen.' ... ..."

It's the lid of an 8th century box

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O Mac "... carrying case for a holy book." So not to far off with my ornate book cover guesstimate.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2018 via Marten Kuilman

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And another one