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- Each highly detailed Cardinal Bird Lapel/Tie Pin is hand painted to the "fussiest" of standards by Finger Lakes artist, Lynda Proper.
- Each Cardinal Bird Lapel/Tie Pin is hand crafted in inks & acrylics on Sycamore using a wet-sculpting technique developed to give it a three dimensional appearance - like a bas relief.
- Each Cardinal Lapel/Tie Pin is approximately 1 1/2" tall by 1/2" wide.
- Each Cardinal Lapel/Tie Pin has a silver single prong pinback with a spring loaded clutch.(The pinback is long enough to go through a tweed jacket lapel, but not so long as to be dangerous to a tie wearer!)
- Each Cardinal Lapel/Tie Pin will come in a gift box with the Cardinal Lapel/Tie Pin nestled in a bed of natural excelsior.
- Each Cardinal Lapel/Tie Pin will come
with a decorative write-up about Song & Garden Birds done in calligraphy, tucked away in a small glassine envelope.
(See the Cardinal Lapel/Tie Pin write-up below.)
- Each Cardinal Lapel/Tie Pin is signed on its finished wood back by the artist.
- Click the above Cardinal Lapel/Tie Pin picture for a larger view.
This is the write-up that will come with the Cardinal Lapel/Tie Pin:  "Swallows do not bury themselves in swamps to hibernate for the winter as Aristotle contended, and birds do not migrate to the moon in 60 days as published in 1703. It wasn't until the 1700's that scientific information about birds was gathered in earnest, with an organizational system not completed until the late 1800's. Today we are heir to an accessible body of reliable informational material compiled over a period of 300 years by generations of naturalists, including pioneers such as Gatesby, Linnaeus, and Audubon.
But science will never be the entire story about birds. These mighty little beings engage our senses, stir our feelings, and inspire our imaginations. In speaking of bird songs, Isaac Newton queried," Lord, what music hast Thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth?" As science begins to assure us that birds are truly the descendants of dinosaurs, I find myself wondering what glorious sounds might bave been heard at dawn and dusk millions of years ago."
Copyright L.Proper 1995
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