Fake 41

There is a new café in Brading, open on an occasional basis, called the Auctioneer, in token of the Hose Rhodes Dickson auction house behind, a house with a sale today including a large number of African spears. I was more tempted by some carvings from the Trobriand Islands, the islands originally made famous by Bronisław Malinowski and puffed more recently in 'Castaway', a film involving the late Oliver Reed, and I could perhaps have used the carvings to mark the place of my copy of reference 1 in the home library. In the event we passed, which meant we got back in time to take tea and cake (rather good) at the Auctioneer.

It being rather hot again, we took tea inside, from the table illustrated. A table which had been covered with printed oil cloth (or some such), printed with an image of old flooring, painted to look like multi-coloured floor tiles, then half sanded to give it a fashionably distressed look. Fake, fake, fake!

The building the table was in really was old, maybe as much as five hundred years old, complete with lots of old beams, full of woodworm, hopefully dead. Almost certainly a grade something listed building.

Reference 1: The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea - Malinowski B and Ellis H - 1929.

Reference 2: http://www.hrdauctionrooms.co.uk/.