I’ve been posting about myself, but I wanted to show what my quirky and talented husband gets up to….so here I am, modelling one of the plague masks he makes out of leather and brass fittings. The eye holes have brass screening. My academic robes plus a head-drape, and voila! the perfect costume! Of course, in olden times, they stuffed the ‘beak’ with scented herbs, to combat the “mal aria” (bad air), which they thought spread the plague. He also makes these in copper, but they’re not very comfortable to wear!
Ann Dickinson Sargent 