Tag Archives: gold
Gilt-Edged
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Translated Vase: shards of ceramic ‘sewn’ together with 24K gold by Korean artist Yee Sookyung – a process similar to the centuries old Japanese art of kintsugi.
Bright Skies
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North Wall Quay, Dublin, yesterday.
Anne writes:
Gold cladding on the new Central Bank building glinting in the evening sun.
Olympic gold medallists Bob Tisdall and Ronnie Delany in 1988
Lovely to see Olympic coverage in the paper. Eileen Battersby lists “10 names forever etched in Olympic lore”, including the great Ronnie Delany who she says won “Ireland’s first, and to date, only gold medal on the track”.
However, 24 years earlier, on August 1st, 1932 in Los Angeles, in arguably the finest hour of Irish sport, Ireland won two track and field gold medals within 60 minutes.
Bob Tisdall on the track won the 400m hurdles followed by Dr Pat O’Callaghan winning his second gold in the hammer.
Simon O’Callaghan,
Islington,
London.
From top: treasure map: Sir Roger Casement
Gold!
In them there hills?
Seán Mac an tSíthigh writes:
A map drawn by Roger Casement shows where he hid gold in a ringfort ‘under some fern bracken and bramble’ in Banna [Co Kerry]…
Start up the Makro JeoTech
Anyone?
BBling
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An inexplicable 4 inch tall model of the BB8 droid from The Force Awakens made from 18ct yellow gold studded with 860 diamonds.
Apparently the vulgar blingball took 400 hours to make and was up for auction (for charidee) at the Force 4 Fashion event last night in New York.
Bidding started at $135,000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4_l1rHpmiY
This morning.
Thomas Barr won the 400m hurdles at the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea 48.78.
The 22-year-old, of Ferrybank AC in Co. Waterford, is the first Irish athlete to win the World University Games since both Sonia O’Sullivan and Niall Bruton both won gold in 1991.
Thomas Barr wins 400 metres hurdle at World University Games (Irish Times)
The Beverley Hill Edition Solid Gold Mountain Bike is not, in fact, solid gold.
It is however 24K gold plated, with a chocolate brown alligator leather seat and a logo encrusted with 600 black diamonds and 500 golden sapphires, which is why The House Of Solid Gold offers you its blingtastic dandyhorse for $1,000,000.