Elizabethan Picture Village: North of west, beyond Oxfordshire, lie Gloucestershire, with the Cots-wold Hills; Warwickshire, with Stratford-upon-Avon, the fabulous castles of Warwick and Kenilworth, and Coventry; farther west, Worcestershire, numbering among its attractions the Elizabethan picture village of Broadway, haunt of arty Americans; and then the Border Counties and WALES, which last will be separately mentioned below. (Important note: Lovely Sulgrave Manor, ancestral home of the Washington Family, is a prime attraction for American visitors. It may be reached by a tangent trip from the Warwickshire castle region, leaving from Leamington Spa for Ban-bury and then Helmdon.)
Your Elizabethan Year Set for 195 again has no penny. The threepence is valuable at 10s for BU and 8s for EF grade. The Scottish shilling jumps merrily to 20s for BU or 10s for EF grade, and the half-crown does nicely at 20s for BU and 15s for EF grade. Your Maundy Set FDC will set you back £20. Your investment roll of fifty halfpennies will come to around £5.10s BU grade. Your Elizabethan Year Set in BU condition will cost you from 86s upwards collecting the coins singly.
In 1894 Stieglitz traveled again through Europe; it was a highly productive trip. In Paris he made a bold street picture, A Wet Day on the Boulevard, half of which was the bare glistening wet pavement. In the Dutch fishing village of Katwijk he made a series of the fisher-folk in their traditional peasant costumes. They have an air of the past about them in their picturesqueness of subject; in composition they are reminiscent of the paintings of the German Impressionist painters who frequented the village.
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