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Re: puzzle for a snowy day
From:
Haans Petruschke <[log in to unmask]>
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Haans Petruschke <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:29:26 -0500
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Hi,

I remember the flat Copper piece.  It did not have the long tail feathers
of the Parakeet.  Neither does this pipe.

Interesting

Haans

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Yeah, I know we discussed this years ago, but the Ohio Historical
> Society--recently renamed the Ohio Historical 'Connection' (yuck)--now
> has some really neat ways for us citizens to inspect the precious
> objects in its collections.
>        This
> http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/
> p267401coll32/id/2346
>   just might interest a birder up to her hubcaps in snow. I'm a big fan
> of birding without a car from time to time.
>        Yes, this is the pipe image many of us discussed a couple of years
> ago,
> but the OHS--OK, the OH"C"--now has some nifty new ways for ordinary
> folks to scrutinize these treasures. Check out all the buttons--you can
> do everything but smell it! Previously, the big dispute was: does the
> image represent a Carolina parakeet--as Mills characterized it--or a
> "hawk"--more precisely, a peregrine falcon, based largely on the facial
> mask-- as others would have it? I'm not gonna press anew my own opinion,
> but observant birders will have a lot of features to look at, some of
> which may point in different directions...just what were they smokin'
> down in Scioto County, anyway?
> Bill Whan
> Columbus
>
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