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Greg

Did I type 1789?  I’d only just checked to make sure it was 1769.  A sticky neuron as Frank said.  After all, it was three hours after my normal bedtime.  I think I said a few weeks ago that you can usually find something on the www.  I tried everything.  My path went female and male symbols, Venus and Mars, Botticelli et al, Gauguin, brass rubbings with a wax crayon, a sonar trace, views down a gun barrel or telescope, some sort of recording paper, camera obscuras, before I realised the dot in the middle wasn’t a speck of dirt.  No wonder I couldn’t find the picture on the www. if you’d only just drawn it.  Dave

Frank, A commemorative 1769 Venus transit wax letter seal stamp would have been a very slick thing for Capt. Cook to have had on his finger or available at his cabin desk. What I had in mind though when sketching this was to create the look of a monument stone rub tracing. What I got was something that looked more like a carved coconut with a circular piece of coconut meat left in place and a pepper corn placed as the transiting Venus. This would mean that the ships cook is the artist and not Captain Cook ;-) Greg Rudzinski