Think I'll Buy Me a Lear Jet..........$85

One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.

Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story.  Read on in this series.....

Whether it is a gauge of value, a means of exchange, a standard of worth or a store of your wealth…money will always stir emotions and even start wars. This weeks tribute is to that idiosyncratic form that effects all of our daily lives….your scribe will put his money where his mouth…he will watch the pennies and he will relish in that clinking clanking sound that makes the world go round.

Today your scribe pays tribute to that great Hollywood and Broadway Link Man, Joel Grey, who played on film and on screen the part of “Master of Ceremonies” in Cabaret. Cabaret set in Berlin in the 1930’s and based on the Christopher Isherwood book Good Bye Berlin, sees Berlin at its peak of extravagance and debauchery and is set against the looming backdrop of the Weimar Republic on the rise. Social history mixed with Hollywood 70’s musical makes for a heady mix.

The Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey) coupled with Sally Bowles (Good ol’ Liza Minnelli) sing “Money makes the world go round” …..Pink Floyd mention that they might buy themselves a Lear Jet but Liza and Joel in cabaret go for the 14 karat yacht!!!!!!

Get a little, get a little…

Money money money money...

Mark, a yen, a buck or a pound,

That clinking, clanking, clunking sound,

Is all that makes the world go 'round,

It makes the world go 'round

Today’s links are a gift from a close financier friend that was on the trails to the Isle of Skye

last year and found these little beauties in a thrift shop there. They are gold plate with a sterling pound motif in blue glass. Worn with a tailored Egyptian cotton shirt and a Salvatore Ferragamo silk tie with a dolphin and anchor pattern

Til later

ONWARD