Comments on: Billy & Charley’s Reliquaries https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Katya https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/#comment-246131 Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:31:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106730#comment-246131 As viewed by me late at night, while in the grip of a predisposition to admire the odd and crumbling, something seized my rational mind, a thing normally good at smelling sentiment, fraud’s mild-mannered cousin, many miles hence. These long gone knights and kings, saints and holy emperors, their tiny tombs pried apart, their sacred contents reduced by the ages to nothing, almost broke that other rational part of me, my heart. But peering closer at the skillfully eroded details, I sensed beneath them stalwart hearts of another time. Less rational. Less scientific. Noble and untainted. Almost beating, but not quite.

]]> By: Vicky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/#comment-245700 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:26:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106730#comment-245700 To me it doesn’t matter a jot whether fake or not. They’re great, love ’em all.

]]> By: Sue Ladr https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/#comment-245643 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:30:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106730#comment-245643 I just love these, fakes or not. They embody the maker’s enjoyment of creation and a great (to my eye, not having lost money on them) sense of humor.

]]> By: Ellen in NEW England https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/#comment-245627 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:26:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106730#comment-245627 They sure are cute, though, with the buggy eyes and little animals running around!

]]> By: annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/#comment-245622 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:11:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106730#comment-245622 They might be fakes but I really like them.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/#comment-245613 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:21:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106730#comment-245613 Beautiful “fakes” — but, who ever could tell: is it a “fake” or is it an “original”? There must have been times, when the imitations had been originals. Where is the boundary?

Love & Peace
ACHIM

PS: May PETE SEEGER rest in Peace…!

]]> By: Mo Heard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/#comment-245606 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:20:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106730#comment-245606 Hello!
William Smith and Charles Eaton were Victorian entrepreneurial scallywags! I am thrilled to find this piece.

I wrote a short story about them in my children’s adventure book Leo’s Heroes (a boy goes back in time and meets unusual characters – real people – from the past.) The book is still available ISBN: 978 1846244698 from Amazon.

Among the other people Leo meets, is Benjamin Pollock in his shop in Hoxton.

Best wishes, Mo Heard

]]> By: valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/#comment-245593 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:51:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106730#comment-245593 These wonderful, creative fakes are really awesome, B & C were two very clever and enterprising gents. Valerie

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/30/billy-charleys-reliquaries/#comment-245576 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:34:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106730#comment-245576 cosmo by any chance?

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