Tag: historic treasures

Best of Treasures: Piece Likely Intended to Be a Picture Frame Is Exuberant, Uncommon

By Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson From Tribune News Service   Dear Helaine and Joe: I am wondering if you can help me identify this piece. It is marked “Meriden Quadruple Silver Plate” on the back. I would like to know the approximate age and anything else you can tell me. I have searched the…


UK Police Arrest Man Over Theft of Mary Queen of Scots’s Rosary Beads

LONDON—British police arrested a man on Tuesday in connection with the theft of gold rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution in 1587, among items worth more than £1 million ($1.37 million) stolen from a castle in the south of England. Mary, a Roman Catholic, was ousted from the Scottish throne…