Dispensary Corner 18 Jan 13
January 18, 2013
ONE woman’s step is another’s
treasure.
British woman, Bronwen
Hickmott, needed to take a few
deep breaths to calm her heart
rate after discovering that a stone
used for a step in her garden, is in
fact a 1,000-year old Buddhist
moonstone.
The six-inch thick, three
quarters of a ton granite
moonstone had been in
Hickmott’s family for years, when
she decided to have it examined.
At first she approached the TV
show Antiques Roadshow and
Sotheby’s only to be rebuffed,
and it was only when she
offhandedly mentioned the stone
to a valuer at Bonhams that the
stone’s origins were discovered.
The stone is only one of seven
of its type in the world, carved by
craftsmen of the Buddhist
Sinhalese civilisation, and is
worth around $45,500.
PROTECT and serve.
German police dogs are set to get their own quartets of shoes to protect their paws. The paw shoes are made from velcro and keep glass and debris out of police dog paws. “This is not fashion frippery,” said Head dog handler Thomas Schulte. “Dogs' paws are sensitive and easily damaged and they can cut themselves on broken glass and a bad cut can put a police dog out of action for six months while they recover,” he added. Despite the best intentions however, it seems not all police dogs enjoy having their paws enclosed, with Schulte saying that during the first stages of the pawwear trials the dogs would pull the shoes off with their teeth. “They need about two weeks to adapt,” he said.
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