| About 50 years ago they got so unroyally grubby that abbey authorities would not permit even antiquarians to see them. |
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| Demand for these wares abated before the Civil War but soon antiquarians and collectors began to search out examples of these patriotic ceramics. |
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| Our readership of more than 20,000 includes genealogists, historians, heraldists and antiquarians. |
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| Cyriac's detailed notes and drawings, together with his interests in collecting, made him a role model for later antiquarians. |
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| Napoleon has with him scholars, including antiquarians and linguists, whose job it is to unravel the mysteries of ancient Egypt. |
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| Collectors and antiquarians were largely responsible for the vogue for collecting antiquities that took root in the eighteenth century. |
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| Centuries after sword manufacturing in Hounslow had ceased, some antiquarians began collecting the surviving specimens. |
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| Genealogists are no longer simply antiquarians but often museologists, archivists, and family historians. |
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| The reason for the change in formulation is that numismatic specialists and antiquarians insisted that coins had to be made of metal. |
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| Since many pieces of English delftware are dated, they have long been held in particularly high regard by antiquarians and collectors. |
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| The book belonged variously to an English lady, a Scottish noblewoman and thereafter to members of the Stewart family and two notable antiquarians. |
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| It was a time when large numbers of women and antiquarians were collecting ceramics, chiefly the refined wares used in America during the colonial and early Federal periods. |
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| The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently. |
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| From the early Renaissance on, they had been admired and drawn by painters and sculptors and carefully described and cataloged by art enthusiasts and antiquarians. |
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| Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets. |
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| One of the problems is illegal export of relics by foreigners who are not informed by antiquarians about the law in force. |
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| Consider those televised traveling antique shows, in which people flock to antiquarians to determine the worth of their old possessions. |
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| How do the antiquarians decide what is worth a fortune and what is merely a curiosity? |
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| Immediate source of acquisition: acquired from private citizens, organizations and antiquarians. |
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| The event brings together antiquarians and art galleries in an exceptional setting. |
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| In this space, we offer you UNIQUE objects dyed the warp threads in in bric-à-brac trade, rooms of sales or even antiquarians. |
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| Some miles from Rome stands an abbey that has a far greater significance than as a sight for admiring tourists or a treasure for antiquarians. |
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| But it was antiquarians, specializing in a number of different areas, who developed the tools for dealing with the past via its documentary and material remains. |
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| Where else in Europe do the traces of pre-classical life leave so much to be puzzled over by antiquarians, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists? |
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| Combing the archives for empirical verification, a disparate band of historians, archivists, and antiquarians refuted Vasari's narrative point by point. |
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| Many were dug by early antiquarians, who sometimes found human remains with fine objects of gold, copper or bronze, jet, amber and other rare materials. |
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| Those concerned: gallery owners, artists, antiquarians, secondhand goods dealer, art dealer, and those whose principle activity is connect to art and the art market. |
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| The weaving sheds are also frequently requested by antiquarians or by private customers for work on re-covering of period seats concerning cleaning, re-weaving on canvas of damaged parts or new conception of graphics. |
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| While the treasure hunters and antiquarians had good intentions, they did not have archaeological training, and they left practically no records of their work. |
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| Between 1880 and 1910, treasure hunters and antiquarians began exploring a field next to the Grand-Pré marsh, where a line of ancient willows grew. |
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| Those antiquarians, you could say, were doing pre-science. |
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| Early antiquarians associated it, on little evidence, with a Saxon deity, while other scholars sought to identify it with a Celtic British figure or the Roman Hercules, or some syncretization of the two. |
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| Throughout recorded history, Stonehenge and its surrounding monuments have attracted attention from antiquarians and archaeologists. |
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| Your apartment gives with its three sound-proof windows on the Rue Falque, quiet and commercial, no far from the movies, the all in full district of the antiquarians. |
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| Just a step away from the place Jamaa El Fna, in the middle of the souks of the antiquarians Riad Lorsya in summer renovated with care, preserving the charm envoutant ancient Riads de Marrakech in pure Moroccan tradition. |
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| Other names used by antiquarians include the Wall of Pius and the Antonine Vallum, after Antoninus Pius. |
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| Asia is the cradle of numberless cultures of ancient tradition, whose artistic creations have always interested antiquarians, as well as being hosted by major museums from all over the world for a long time. |
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| When seeking to explain this change in the complexity and style of castles, antiquarians found their answer in the Crusades. |
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| During the Reformation, when monastic libraries were dispersed, the manuscripts were collected by antiquarians and scholars. |
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| Many private antiquarians and book collectors, such as Sir Robert Cotton, used their own library classification systems. |
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| On the whole nationalism was the preserve of antiquarians not political activists. |
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| In Tudor times the antiquarians John Leland and William Camden used the modern form of the name. |
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| It grew out of local patriotism, as provincial antiquarians and archivists in Italy tried to challenge Vasari's account of the development of Italian art centred on Florence. |
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| The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley, however, took an interest in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its destruction. |
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| The British surveyor Charles Vallancey was one of many antiquarians who argued that Ireland was Thule, as he does in his book An essay on the antiquity of the Irish language. |
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| The roots of the pyramidologist or pyramidiot probably go back to the time the pyramids were built, but their flowering arrived with the antiquarians of the 19th century. |
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| Until the nineteenth century, antiquarians did not have substantial knowledge of prehistory, and their only reference points were provided by classical literature. |
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| Much of our knowledge and understanding of Castlerigg stone circle has been passed down to us by the work of 18th century antiquarians and 19th century amateurs. |
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| Pentre Ifan was studied by early travellers and antiquarians, and rapidly became famous as an image of ancient Wales, from engravings of the romantic stones. |
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| Scholarly study of the language began when the manuscripts were collected by scholars and antiquarians such as Matthew Parker, Laurence Nowell and Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. |
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| Antiquarians studied history with particular attention to ancient artifacts and manuscripts, as well as historical sites. |
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| Antiquarians Robert Beale, James Morice, and Richard Cosin argued that Magna Carta was a statement of liberty and a fundamental, supreme law empowering English government. |
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