The sale of two manuscripts detailing swan markings for East Anglia dating respectively to the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries is reported upon by the Eastern Daily Press in Rare Tudor Norfolk and Suffolk swan-marking guide sold for £70,000
The precision and variety of the markings is in itself fascinating as well as the continuity of the tradition in and around the Fens.
It is rather to be regretted that the volumes will be leaving this country having been bought, according to the article, by a Canadian institution. A case for the application of an export ban pending fund raising here?
I posted about the tradition of checking of the marks on the birds at Swan Upping last year in my post Swan Upping
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