Canadian Jewellers Association · Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co · leaf 189
y do not seem to haveprospered by it unduly. But whatever else they may havehad or lacked, each of them had his torque and cherishedit as his first and most prized possession. The torque, which like the fibula dates back into pre-historic times, was a circlet of metal worn around thoneck. To the… … Torques and armlets shown in the Allen Sturge collection at the Royal OntarioMuseum. Presented to the Museum by Mrs. H. D. Warren. proud of it. Men were more free then than later. Then they weretribesmen. Later the feudal system crept in; due, it isclaimed, to the introduction of the stirrup from…
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