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Thursday of Grail Week in Melbourne is Oaks Day, also known as Ladies Day. We, however, will continue with the crowns of gentlemen.Melbourne milliner extraordinaire and oft-seen on-field dandy :} Richard Nylon features prominently among the fashion reports. This is he at the 2006 Melbourne Cup. (photo Simon Schluter, THE AGE)
The 1880s trade cards featured here today and yesterday are what bring Monsieur Nylon to mind, as he returns to this Victoria an extravagant flourish of another Victoriana .
The golden suited milliner applies his trade and crowns a would-be-king.
"Form so ill-defined,
what melancholy vision here regards
your new king?"
what melancholy vision here regards
your new king?"
(Now there are three!)
"Spectres,
do you not know this crown?"
They answer together:
"Know us."
The one below:
"Appearance past."
The one above:
"The same, unborn."
Face-to-face:
"I am Illusion's Crown."
"Know us."
The one below:
"Appearance past."
The one above:
"The same, unborn."
Face-to-face:
"I am Illusion's Crown."
(What place is this?)
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something . . .
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