IT'S ALL IN THE DETAILS

IN THE 1980 KUBRICK FILM, 'THE SHINING" , JACK NICHOLSON'S CHARACTER, JACK TORRENCE,   TAKES HIS SON, DANNY, THROUGH A COMPLEX GREEN TOPIARY MAZE......NOTE THE MAZE-LIKE DESIGN OF JACK'S SHIRT....AND JACKET....AS WELL AS THE 'GREEN HEDGE MAZE' TIE THAT HE IS WEARING.........

  .Although I have a collection of deer and elk antler handled carving implements....I'd never seen a set (knife, fork and sharpening tool) with sterling silver handles that resembled antlers......This knife, from the set, is as razor-sharp as it was when it was first made, in 1889.......

by happenstance, I found some info about this small Zaalberg 'cabinet' vase: (Familiebedrijf: 1918-1937 H. Zaalberg Sr., 1937-1962, M.H. Zaalberg, 1962 H. Zaalberg Jr. Eerst onder de naam Pottenbakkerij De Rijn, Vanaf 1942 tot heden wordt uitsluitend de Zaalberg merkstempels gebruikt.) ....in Dutch, of course, which I cannot comprehend....... the vase was made by Meindert Zaalberg ...during my visit to Holland and the "Artist Colony" near Soest.... My memory circuits required a massive amount of koffie to dislodge this relatively unimportant information... Then, from another 'memory cell' of my brain.......I remembered my trip to Soest, Holland....to visit my then-pregnant friend, Cheryl Lowe Ransijn.....who was driving a couple of times a week to take piano and Dutch Language lessons from her tutor, Ma Fra Tenkate ( spelling as I remember the sound of her name ), who also directed, in her multi-lingual home, a Colony of young Artistes who lived under ...