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Gertrude Jekyll was a leading designer of gardens. The rose of Gertrude Stein's well known poem can also be identified as the tip of the old-fashioned garden watering can. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image of a sailboat with a small toy sailboat on its stern, is surrounded by text which reads "Elegy for 'Whimbel' and 'Petrel': Petrol." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image is identical to the print with the same title. The complete text is "Evening will come They will sew the blue sail." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Five names of ships and the names of their ports have been written in green color with a traditional calligraphic style. *WEB 1998: Publisher's name misspelt. Date wrong -- should be 1978. Sackner: corrected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

One of six glass lenses designed by Finlay and interpreted by Stevens, engraved on two sides with a decorative representation of a ship, its name and inscription composed by Finlay. The inscription reads "In a Blossom of Foam" The printed, folded brochure describes and documents the six glass lenses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Consists of the port letters and numbers of Scottish fishing vessels fired in green on a white background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Depicts sundial with the caption "Too Many Laws Too Few Examples." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The medal depicts an automatic machine gun as a metaphor for a flute; commemorates first episode of an assult by the Strathclyde Region tax collectors on Finlay's home. The leaflet accompanyimg this medal commemorating the incident is a visual pun on Virgil's flute, with the vents in the barrel-sleeve as the finger-stops. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.