That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 03, 2024

The Goldsmiths Guild only LP never charted but they always had the album cover for the memories.

The new boy band, Dutch Kids On The Block

/// These four Syndics of the Goldsmiths’ Guild

are, in Amsterdam, suitably skilled

to judge whether what’s sold

is of pure, solid gold,

or just plated, or maybe gold-filled.

Never hire four watchmakers to repair your watch at the same time – You will end up with a mess of springs and coils as nobody remembers where anything goes.

The Rolling Stones first album cover

A ruff crowd.

FIND the wench who starched these collars!

The Beatles tried several outfit designs in the early days. Some did not last long.

The Dutch Air Filter Champions

Their opponents would blow their noses on those cute little neck ruffles!!

“These are the tools we use to get our heads thru the collars.”

Everyone pretty much expected the Dutch Inquisition.

Yes Your Honor, I know it is unusual but when he hit our our carriage we all suffered a whiplash injury

The Dutch Masters Chess Masters team portrait after their undefeated season. Their team motto was “Nobody Will Mate Us”.

“Does anybody out there know how to cook a squid ?”

Would you buy a gold watch from one of these guys on the street?

Did you ever wonder what other options E*Trade had before they went with the talking babies ads?

Back in 2002, the Toledo Museum of Art and the Frick Collection collaborated on an exhhibition under the title of Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art. If you search for it, you can find a nice essay by Mario Naves on the exhibiiton which contains interesting commentary on this painting. Try a search for the phrase “Were one to stroll through The Frick Collection” as an exact phrase (i.e. in quotes) and you should find it pretty quickly. Unfortunately, I can’t get the page at the Toledo Museum website to open this morning due to unknown gremlins.

I loved that great Dutch Masters Presidents cigar commercial where they all sing the “Smile Brother Smile!” song.

They were doing great until they started their beards. They spent so much time on beard grooming they failed to keep up on their trivia knowledge.

Many of their female fans were disappointed when The Dutch Boys band broke up … The music critics were not!

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse before work…

The Pinheads, Monday Night bowling league champions.

Pride Month — the VERY early years.

Look at all this cool stuff we found in the creek!

They were requested to take their cravats elsewhere, and stay with them.

maybe they’ll be laughing so hard they won’t be able to answer the questions in time?

In his right hand he has what, a Jacob’s Ladder. And in his left, an Alien/Predator bio-pistol?

FramFilterTon Comes Alive.

Syndics of the Amsterdam Goldsmiths Guild: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:People with keys in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Syndics, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3331 (June 3, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

Before the dunce cap there was the ruffle of ridicule.

Before the Bloods and Crips there were the deadly Shakespeares gang of London

Little did the competition know that they had bluetooth speakers hidden in the ruffs and the fifth members was sitting in a corner with his laptop booted up and Google on the browser!

Careful, they’ll ruff you up.

Those collars don’t make you ruff.

Proctology in the pre-anaesthetic era….