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In all the time I've done Tidbits ... I've never found a piece of jewelry that brings with it absolutely no available information. However ... after an exhaustive search spanning many years ... I have finally found what I have been looking for. Ignorance!... complete and total.
Ah ... what heady excitement pervades the soul at the very thought of existing in an intellectual void. How much more can a person ask for in life? We are living in a time that can boast the advantage of the incessant bombardment of intellectual trivia as well as important and highly informative stuff. But how many of you out there can brag with absolute certainty and pride ... chanting to the world while holding your head up high ... I know nothing.
Well folks ... I can ... and I do. Let me tell you about my British soldier. I have in my library scads and scads of books and magazines about jewelry and its attendant gemstones. I have a friend who collects these things and every once in a while dumps a few dozen mags in my lap. For you, he says. For whatever it is you use them for. He doesn't know and he couldn't care less.
In one of these magazines is a British Soldier. It may be a brooch. It may be a statuette. I do not know and I'm proud of it. The overleaf describing our little English chap is missing. He's probably made of gold ... 14 karat or 18 karat ... I know not which. His flag and draping seems to contain calibré rubies and sapphires and emeralds. But I can't be sure. His hat ... perhaps it's sapphire. His belts ... surely diamonds. His purpose ... like his decorations ... a total mystery. I am intoxicated with the excitement of my ignorance. To experience this in these times is truly amazing. I would venture to say there is not one reader out there who could claim with pride total ignorance on a topic.
I stand alone ... and proud. I know nothing about my Brit dear readers. I know zip and zero and even less than that. Of course ... for those who might at this point want to call me a dunderhead ... to you I say ... yeah ... but I know what he looks like. So ... if you want to see this very handsome (golden?) British soldier laden with gems ... go take a look. But don't ask me anything about him ... for I know not diddly-squat.
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And there ya have it. That's it for this week folks. Catch you all next week. Benjamin Mark
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