http://www.dawnann.com/blog/a-mystery-what-does-it-mean-this-skull-wearing-glasses/ Finding my identity through my family's history Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:43:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.dawnann.com/blog/a-mystery-what-does-it-mean-this-skull-wearing-glasses/comment-page-1/#comment-4261 Dawn-Ann Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:14:40 +0000 http://www.dawnann.com/blog/?p=407#comment-4261 Thank you for your excellent explanation, Ron. I have never heard of such a thing but it makes so much sense. Very interesting! Thank you for your excellent explanation, Ron. I have never heard of such a thing but it makes so much sense. Very interesting!

]]> http://www.dawnann.com/blog/a-mystery-what-does-it-mean-this-skull-wearing-glasses/comment-page-1/#comment-4260 Ron Mudie Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:05:37 +0000 http://www.dawnann.com/blog/?p=407#comment-4260 Hi, Yes I saw this many years ago and at that time my Grandfather was a Master stone mason. He said it was done by a mason feeling his own face to get a better idea of how the skull is shaped. Not many masons had seen a skull and never did. Most sculpted from others ideas,and, as I said others felt over their own face to get dimentions etc. The 'legs of the glasses' are the jutting bone the mason felt from the eye socket to the ear and included them in the carving. My grandfather too said this particular mason would have done this as a 'one off', and building would probably have been his trade. Hi, Yes I saw this many years ago and at that time my Grandfather was a Master stone mason. He said it was done by a mason feeling his own face to get a better idea of how the skull is shaped. Not many masons had seen a skull and never did. Most sculpted from others ideas,and, as I said others felt over their own face to get dimentions etc. The ‘legs of the glasses’ are the jutting bone the mason felt from the eye socket to the ear and included them in the carving. My grandfather too said this particular mason would have done this as a ‘one off’, and building would probably have been his trade.

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