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Originally Posted by Opteron_Man
Me too! I love taking a paintbruss and dusting off old antique things!
I wish I had a monicle!
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1. We don't generally dust antiques, that's a job for antique dealers and curators.
We tend to dust off bones, nails, and scrub collections of shards of glass with damp toothbrushes. Paintbrushes, like shaving brushes, tend to shed bristles and when damp clump together. Toothbrushes are far more useful.
2. I have not yet met anyone who wears a monocle. We prefer sunglasses.
But I am curious as to where you got the idea of monocles being associated with archaeology. I have spent some time delighting in inaccuracies in films, and have no idea where that iconography comes from. I don't mean to be snarky, I just hate it when historians, archaeologists, and secondhand furniture salespeople get confused together in the public mind
