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Picture No 10024932
Date 1856
Description Putting bee-hives into mourning 1856
Details

Telling the bees, traditional European custom in which bees would be told of an important event in the beekeepers life, such as long journeys, births, marriages and deaths. Engraving showing black crepe fabric been draped over the hive to symbolize the death in the family.
Source Engraving in 'Cassell's Illustrated Family', 12 July 1856, page 221 and also in ‘The Day's Doings', 19 November 1870
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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