Curios

At 17, I joined merchant shipping, and, from whatever I could afford as a cadet, I started buying artworks, curios, ceramic/porcelain plates and vases at street stalls, flea markets & antique fairs in the seaports my ship visited.

There are also things here that would be amazing gifts for a connoisseur who collects rare TV and film curios.

Among clothes, fruit, as well as curios and knick-knacks, we find herbalist stalls claiming to cure everything, from illness to infertility.

Co-owner Afrikamba, Curios … 85 South Union Street, Spencerport, with Harry Ewell, since 1994.

He could project himself into other selves, in other times, as he contemplated his curios.

Hogwarts and the magical world was painted in intricate detail, packed full of interesting characters and supernatural curios.

It’s spread over two floors (the bar is upstairs), with grey-blue walls, vintage photographs, kitschy pop-art posters of muscle-flexing Arnold Schwarzenegger, pineapple book-holders and curios.

You may also find sea turtle curios and jewelry in shops when you travel to Latin America and while these may look like harmless “tortoiseshell” pieces, they are actually crafted from dead sea turtles’ shells.

Diogenes Laërtius, 67 his penetrating knowledge of nature, and the reputation of his marvellous powers, including the curing of diseases, and averting epidemics, Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 60, 70, 69; Plutarch, de Curios.

Lesser revenue sources The Pitcairners are involved in creating crafts and curios (made out of wood from Henderson ).