treasures-and-beauty:This Memento-Mori watch presented to Mary Queen of Scots by her attendant Mary
treasures-and-beauty:This Memento-Mori watch presented to Mary Queen of Scots by her attendant Mary Seaton, is from the 16th century. The forehead of the skull is engraved with a figure of death between a palace and a cottage, and a quotation in Latin, “pale death visits with impartial foot the cottages of the poor and castles of the rich”. -- source link
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