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Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Nov 09, 2021 5:57 pm

The BC lasted for 38 years
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Nov 12, 2021 11:22 am

I have been lucky enough to sell some BPs on occasion
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Fri Nov 12, 2021 7:31 pm

I am so stumped by this… have thought of dozens of possibilities, Googled each of them - and reached a dead end each time!

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:08 pm

As well as the BC the HC, the SC and the SS among many others performed the same sort of function
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Sat Nov 13, 2021 10:18 pm

Think publications
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Sat Nov 13, 2021 10:31 pm

I guess that BC will be the Bannatyne Club, which lasted between 1823 and 1861. One of the similar organisations which you listed, SC, must be the Spalding Club?
As to BP, I've searched through a list of the Bannatyne' Club's publications and cannot find anything that matches - unless BP just stands for Bannatyne Publications?
Late edit: SS = Stair Society, HC = Hunterian Club?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Sun Nov 14, 2021 9:34 am

Correct except that BP stands for Bannatyne Papers. As you list, there were many such clubs in the nineteenth century, without whom we may have lost valuable documents.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Sun Nov 14, 2021 3:28 pm

TO, CP, TE and outside TM are four locations of what is in every respect the same thing. Hint: These are fairly detailed locations (ie not the name of a town, county, etc) and only the last is in Scotland.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:10 pm

Would each of these locations be in the 4 countries of The UK?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:47 pm

Sgurr wrote:Would each of these locations be in the 4 countries of The UK?


No, only two of these locations are in the UK.
The identical things in these four locations are inextricably linked to two men, who never met and who were not even alive at the same time. One of these men was JS.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Tue Nov 16, 2021 10:43 pm

TO is in D
CP is in M
TE (or TTE) is in L
TM is in D
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Tue Nov 16, 2021 10:55 pm

RICHARDCFF wrote:
Sgurr wrote:Would each of these locations be in the 4 countries of The UK?


No, only two of these locations are in the UK.
The identical things in these four locations are inextricably linked to two men, who never met and who were not even alive at the same time. One of these men was JS.


Are these the four statues of Robert Burns by John Steell?

One in The Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand
One on the Thames Embankment
One in Central Park, New York
One outside The McManus, Dundee

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Tue Nov 16, 2021 11:20 pm

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:
Are these the four statues of Robert Burns by John Steell?

One in The Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand
One on the Thames Embankment
One in Central Park, New York
One outside The McManus, Dundee

Tim


Correct, well done! :clap:

I used Central Park, Manhattan in my clue as I thought NY would give the game away but it made no difference!

I myself have "bagged" two of these statues, the one in Dunedin early last year and the one in Dundee many times and as recently as this morning - pics below!

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The Octagon, Dunedin, February 2020


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Outside The McManus, Dundee, 16 November 2021



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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Tue Nov 16, 2021 11:35 pm

Thanks very much! - nice photos too!

HMW went on and on and on

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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Thu Nov 18, 2021 9:30 am

Hamish's Mountain Walk?
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