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At the Sign of the Barber's Pole by William Andrews (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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In most instances the old signs which indicated the callings of shopkeepers have been swept away. Indeed, the three brass balls of the pawn-broker and the pole of the barber are all that are left of signs of the olden time. Round the barber's pole gather much curious fact and fiction. So many suggestions have been put forth as to its origin and meaning that the student of history is puzzled to give a correct solution. One circumstance is clear: its origin goes back to far distant times. An attempt is made in The Athenian Oracle (i. 334), to trace the remote origin of the pole. The barber's art, says the book, was so beneficial to the publick, that he who first brought it up in Rome had, as authors relate, a statue erected to his memory. In England they were in some sort the surgeons of old times, into whose art those beautiful leeches, [1] our fair virgins, were also accustomed to be initiated. In cities and corporate towns they still retain their name Barber-Chirurgions. They therefore used to hang their basons out upon poles to make kwn at a distance to the weary and wounded traveller where all might have recourse. They used poles, as some inns still gibbet their signs, across a town. It is a doubtful solution of the origin of the barber's sign

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Publisher
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1493580817
ISBN-13
9781493580811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189568777

Product Key Features

Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Author
William Andrews

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Date of Publication
24/10/2013
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Country of Publication
United States

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