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Always click on blue
underlined texts for more information about that particular subject
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Picture of the Month - July 2010
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This month we show something completely different. Three monkeys on
a tomb on a graveyard in Santiago in Chile. Click here to
have a look and here
to view all other Monthly Pictures since the start of this website
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(June 30, 2010) 
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“Orphans” page with incomplete hear-see-speak-no-evils
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A number of single No Evil items (so called “Orphans”) have been
reunited and several other single pieces have been added. Click here to view the
page with incomplete 3-monkey sets. Maybe you’ll find that one missing
monkey that will make your set complete. You can also send us pictures of
your own incomplete sets, which will be published for free.
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(June 21, 2010)
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Photos of the
Collectors Meeting in Kansas City
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Three-Monkey
Collectors from seven US states and three different countries recently met
in Kansas City, KS, USA. Click here to
view a picture album.
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(June 16, 2010)
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Three-Monkey Collectors meeting in the Netherlands
on September 25, 2010
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As you can see in the header of this News Bulletin, already 50
participants have registered for the meeting in Holland and it is quite
possible that this year we will attain a record attendance.
The yearly collectors meetings are interesting and worthwhile for
the following main reasons:
- To meet with fellow
collectors and the opportunity to make new friends
- To exchange all kinds of
information about collecting no evil monkey items
- To buy new items and sell
duplicates during the afternoon session
Are you interested to learn more? Click here.
See you in Brielle!
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(June 11, 2010)
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Kansas City June 4-6,
2010
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Three-monkey
collectors from North America are now getting together in Kansas City, KS.
The program includes interesting presentations about the three wise
monkeys, the sale of special collectables as well as visits to local
members to view their “no evil” collections. There also is enough time to
meet with old and new 3-monkey friends and to do sightseeing and “monkey
hunting”. We will report about this meeting and show photos as soon as
possible.
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(June 04, 2010)
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Picture of the Month - June 2010
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This month’s photo was taken in Enschede
Holland, where citizens protested with a wall painting of the 3 monkeys
against government plans to change the accessibility of the inner city. Click here to
have a look and here
to view all other Monthly Pictures that we have put together over the past
years.
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(May 31, 2010)
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View Guestbook
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There are a number of interesting new entries in the
Guestbook; certainly worthwhile to have a look. Click here.
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(May 24, 2010)
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New “unique” No Evils
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Two more interesting No Evils were added to our UNIQUE items page, a
bronze statue and a desk clock, items UN49 and UN50. Click here to view them. If you want to see all other
very special items on that page, then click here.
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(May 17, 2010)
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Newsletter emails
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Yesterday our bi-monthly Newsletter email was sent
out. Our mailing list contains more than 400 addresses worldwide, mostly
three-monkey collectors but also others who are interested in the subject
of hear see and speak no evil. We thank all of you for your interest and
for visiting our website. If you have subscribed but do not receive our
emails, if you would like us to use another email address or if you want to
be removed from our list, please let us know. Many thanks for your help to
keep our mailing list up-to-date.
Click here to
contact us.
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(May 10, 2010)
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Our No Evil Monkeys collectors store
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Several interesting new three-monkey items were recently added to
our online store, including a unique pair of No Evil monkey sunglasses. Click here, If you are
interested in any of our items, just let us know. We will be pleased to send you further
information, including shipping costs and safe payment. This is relaxed
collector to collector business and no “evil” strings attached. Should you
attend the upcoming Collectors Meeting in Kansas City (June 4-6) we can
handover the items to you, so that you can save on shipping costs.
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(May 08, 2010)
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Another three monkey collection on the internet
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We discovered the web-blog of a collector in the USA who introduces
and describes her collection of no evil items. Click
here to have a look. Our website
page about three monkey collections on the internet now includes about 25
links to a variety of interesting sites. Click here to view them all.
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(May 04, 2010)
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Picture of the Month - May 2010
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This month we feature a photo recently taken on the beach of
Barcelona, Spain: three monkeys made of sand. Click here for the Picture and here for all other Monthly Pictures
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(April 30, 2010)
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Three-Monkey Collectors Gathering on June 4-6, 2010 in Kansas City,
KS, USA
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This date is coming closer now and all people who have expressed
their interest in this event will soon receive an email from organizer
Gregg Ottinger with further details. If you also would like to know more
about this meeting, please let us know through the contact form
of our website. Click
here!
Kansas City 2010 is a unique opportunity to meet with fellow
collectors, to learn more about the origin and meaning of the 3-monkey
symbol and to purchase or exchange duplicates. See you in Kansas!!!!
Click
here to see what has been published about this gathering so far.
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(April 28, 2010)
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Another weird “three-monkey” item
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A skeleton posing as hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil in
motion is certainly not everybody’s taste but it sure is a curiosity. Click here.
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(April 28, 2010)
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An Art Nouveau wall plaque in bronze with hear, see and speak no
evil
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Two almost identical bronze wall plaques that carry the signatures
of two different designers. Who knows more about these items and has the
correct answer? Click
here for the photos.
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(April 24, 2010)
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Probably the weirdest three-monkeys you’ve ever seen
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Face painter James Kuhn has created a 3-monkey painting that really
is out of the ordinary, to say the least. Click
here for the photos and further down on that page is a video clip where
you can also see these three monkeys in motion.
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(April 20, 2010)
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Trifari fashion jewelry with the three monkeys
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Almost 70 years old is a very nice set of three monkey brooches,
designed in 1941 by Alfred Philippe for Trifari, a company specialized in fashion
jewelry. Click here
to view the pictures and here
for of all other unique three-monkey items.
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(April 16, 2010)
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Our website
three-monkeys.info featured in France
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It is with pleasure
to report that we are now specially featured in Arche aux
Collections, an interesting French website about all kinds of collections and
collectibles. If you want to have a
look, just click here. To fully
enjoy that site, some knowledge of the French language is certainly
helpful, but otherwise just “Click and Ye Shall Find”.
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(April 12, 2010)
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New Appraisals/Valuations
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Several emails with photos have been sent to us with the request for
more information about Hear, See and Speak No Evils. Click here
to read the reports. Most recent are #52, #53, #54.
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(April 08, 2010)
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Seasonal Greetings
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Our special No Evil
greetings for the season can be viewed in the Guestbook. Click here.
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(April 03, 2010)
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Picture of the Month - April 2010
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Friends of ours recently toured India and during a stay in Goa, they
spotted three large wise monkeys that
probably have been part of a New Year’s celebration or parade. Luckily they
took a picture. Click
here to view.
If you have an interesting or funny photo of the three monkeys that
could qualify as a Picture of the Month, we will be happy to receive a copy
and if possible the story that goes with it. Thanks in advance for helping
us to keep this website interesting and up-to-date.
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(March 31, 2010)
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On April 1, 2010 this website will be three years old
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Soon www.three-monkeys.info
will be celebrating its third anniversary and that is a good moment for
some reflections.
In a recent worldwide website popularity study, our site ranked number
3,471,251. Not very exciting at first glance, but if you know that there
are an estimated 200,000,000 websites, we have left 196,528,749 sites
behind us. And that looks already a bit better.
Some statistics:
- Our Newsletter email is now
sent out to 411 email addresses in 23 countries.
- Over the past three years
there were 264 entries in our Guestbook which
have made it to one of the frequently visited pages of our website.
- When searching in Google
for information about the three wise monkeys, www.three-monkeys.info
usually shows up on one of the first pages of the search results.
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(March 28, 2010)
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Once more our Monthly
Picture for March 2010
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When selecting the
actual Picture of the Month, we were certainly not aware that this photo
would be so appropriate to the present news stories about clerical child
abuse. Click here for the Picture
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(March 22, 2010)
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3-Monkey Collectors Meeting on June 4-6, 2010 in
Kansas City, KS, USA
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The program and all
other information about the 3-monkey collectors meeting in Kansas City, KS are
now available on this website. If you collect the No Evils you should not
miss this opportunity to meet with fellow collectors, to learn more about
the 3 monkeys and to buy and/or sell duplicates. Click here
for further details.
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(March 21, 2010)
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Three-Monkey-Collectors
Portraits
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Our Collectors’ Gallery now includes
39 three-wise-monkey collectors from 11 countries all over the world, with
collections that range from as few as 3 figurines to over 3000 items. If
you collect the No Evils too, your collection most probably ranges in
between these figures and you certainly do qualify for an own portrait in
our website. All we basically need from you is one or more pictures and
your story. All translations, layout and publication will be done by us.
And the best of it, it is completely free.
A unique opportunity
for all who share our enthusiasm for the three wise monkeys to have an own
free webpage about their collection in four languages.
And this helps us to
make our website even more attractive, day by day.
Are you interested? Please let us know.
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(March 18, 2010)
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No evil website update
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Fellow 3-monkey collector Yvette Lercangee
from Belgium has recently updated her website. All is in Dutch
language, but maybe you want just see pictures of her collection. Click here for the site and
then click in the left column on horen zien en zwijgen, where you
can choose between “Mijn verzameling” (my collection), “Nieuwe aanwinsten”
(new additions) and “Mooie HZZ plaatjes” (Nice no evil pictures). Click
here for an album / slide show of her collection.
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(March 10, 2010)
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Newsletter emails
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Yesterday
our free bi-monthly Newsletter email was sent out to over 400 addresses of three-monkey
collectors but also to others who are interested in hear see and speak no
evil. If you have subscribed but did not receive our email, if you would
like us to use another email address or if you want to be removed from our
list, please let us know. Many thanks for helping us to keep the list
up-to-date.
Click here to
contact us.
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(March 06, 2010)
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Collectors meeting on June 4-6, 2010 in Kansas City,
KS, USA
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All who
are interested in this gathering of 3-monkey-collectors in the US are
strongly advised to send us a short message, so that they will be included
in the mailing list for this event. It is a unique opportunity to meet with
fellow collectors, to make new friends and to exchange information and
duplicates. Click
here to send us a message.
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(March 05, 2010)
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Three Monkeys Collectors store
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Several
interesting new 3-monkey items were added to our online collectors shop. If
there is something you like, just let us know and we will be pleased to
give you further information about the item, about shipping costs to your
address and/or to reserve it for you. Click here to have a look
in the store.
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(March 04, 2010)
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A wise monkeys painting
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A painting of the four wise
monkeys, painted by a very talented girl of only 12 years old. Click here for details
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(March 02, 2010)
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Picture of the Month - March 2010
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The Picture of the Month for March 2010 shows three
European priests in hear, see and speak no evil position. Click here for the Picture and here for all other Monthly Pictures.
We have featured a similar photo earlier, which was
our Picture of the Month for February 2007. Click here.
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(February 28, 2010)
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Book about the three wise monkeys
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We were able to obtain a few more copies of Michio Iida’s book about
the origin of the three wise monkeys. Although the book is in Japanese
language, we think that it should not be missed in any serious three-monkey
collection. Click
here for more information about book and author.
Here is our special offer for all destinations worldwide: book
including postage by Swiss Post standard mail for US$ 38.00
Interested? Click here to
contact us. We will then be
pleased to email information about all payment possibilities, including
PayPal. Offer valid while supply lasts.
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(February 27, 2010)
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Collectors portrait : Louis Peignier from France
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Louis Peignier from France is collecting the no evils for about 20
years. Not only monkey statues, but also other animals and other objects,
like ashtrays and brooches. If you are interested, click here to
read his story. If you want to see all other collectors’ portraits, click here.
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(February 23, 2010)
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How much is a three monkey figurine worth?
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This question we receive almost every day and we always try to
answer to the best of our knowledge. Imagine our “surprise” when we discovered
an internet auction in Germany for a very common three monkey item that
ended at 75 Euro (over US$ 100). This item we would have estimated at max.
US$ 10. This is what can happen, when two bidders are fighting over an item
(A real vendors dream). Click
here and scroll down that page to see the bidding history. (In German
only)
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(February 18, 2010)
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Carnival and the three monkeys
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As announced earlier,
the three monkeys could be seen today during the carnival in Cologne,
Germany, click
here, but also in Lucerne Switzerland, click here.
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(February 15, 2010)
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The French wave
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If you now have a look in the Guestbook you’ll see quite a
number of messages from French No Evil Collectors. How come???? During the
past months Yvelyne Auzou and I have worked
hard on the French
edition of www.three-monkeys.info, which now is almost ready. Yesterday
we have informed all No Evil collectors in France and the reactions are
extremely positive. As a result of this four participants from France have
already registered for the Three-Monkeys Meeting in Brielle.
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(February 14, 2010)
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Paintings about life in Japan
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Fujita Masatoshi has created a lot of artwork about
life in Japan. Interesting is that some of his paintings are showing a Koshin stone
(stele) with Shoumen
Kongou and the three monkeys. Reason enough to feature this artist in
our website. Click
here for the page about Fujita Masatoshi and here for all other
artwork with no evils.
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(February 13, 2010)
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The 3-Monkey
Collectors Day 2010 in Europe
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We received a message from Yvonne & Henk Vonk, who are organizing
this event, that they are already quite busy with the preparations for this
meeting. Click
here for details and here for the
registration form. If you plan to participate, why not register now?
The organizers are thanking you in advance! At this moment there are
already 20 registrants from 4 different countries.
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(February 10, 2010)
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New three-monkey
items
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Photos of new
3-monkey items were added to the following pages: cars, snowglobes and phonecards. Also in the albums with perishable
monkeys some very nice three-monkey sculptures made of snow, ice and sand can be seen.
Enjoy.
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(February
03, 2010)
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Picture of the Month -
February 2010
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The Picture of the Month for February 2010 is an
almost 50 year’s old black & white photo from the TV Series “Lost in
Space”. Click
here for the Picture and here for all other
Pictures of the Month.
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(January
31, 2010)
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Auction
of a Monkey Collection
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During the next auction of Auctionhouse Karrenbauer in Germany, the monkey collection of the Affenberg
in Salem in Germany will be for sale. The collection also includes some
3-monkey figurines. Details and links in our Guestbook Entry #249.
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(January 30, 2010)
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Carnival 2010 in Cologne, Germany
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One of the theme-carriages
of this years’ carnival in Cologne will show the three monkeys. They
represent the responsible authorities for the disaster with the collapse of
the town-archive building during construction work on the Cologne subway
system in 2009. Click
here for this and two more carriage designs.
The world-famous
carnival parade (Zoch) is held on February 15,
2010 and is almost 5 miles long. Maybe you’ll have a chance to watch it on
TV and just keep a lookout for a carriage with a big elephant and the 3
monkeys.
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(January 26, 2010)
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Ce nu dorim de la voi
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By chance we discovered a Rumanian internet forum
titled Ce nu dorim de la voi. The blog contains
almost 150 entries about the three monkeys, including many illustrations,
photos, links etc. If you want to have a look, just
click here. Anyone who can tell us more about the meaning of the forum
is very welcome
to let us know.
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(January 20, 2010)
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New layout
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Frequent visitors to
three-monkeys.info have immediately noticed that this page looks different.
On the left side is a long list with direct links to the various pages and
albums of this website. The reason for this new layout is that all those
who only visit this website through the Newsletter, often have no idea what
else is published about Hear See and Speak No Evil. That’s why! We will be pleased to read your opinion
about the new layout. Click here to send
us a message. Many thanks in advance.
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(January 09, 2010)
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Epiphany-the visit of the Three Magi – Kings of the
Orient
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On January 6 (Epiphany) a special cake is baked that
contains one bean. The person who finds this bean in his piece of cake is
the King for that day. This custom exists in a number of countries. In
France small ceramic figurines are used instead of real beans. And yes,
these “beans” also exist in the shape of three monkeys! Last year we could
only present one example of these rare items. Now we can even show a set of
three separate no evil monkeys. Click here.
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(January 06, 2010)
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The 3-monkey collection of Yvelyne Auzou
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Yvelyne is a fellow three-monkey collector in France
who is tremendously helping me with the translation of this website
www.three-monkeys.info into French. Yvelyne has just now published photos
of her 3 monkey collection on the internet and if you want to see them, click
here. If you want to see other 3 monkey collections on the internet, click here.
And to view Yvelyne’s Collectors Portrait, click here.
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(January 05, 2010)
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No Evil Monkeys Statues
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During a recent visit to Lausanne Switzerland, we
revisited the 3 Monkey Fountain of Eduard Sandoz and made a new series of photographs of this
interesting piece of art. Click here for the new
photo album or here
for the page with a photo album with three-monkey statues worldwide, that
also has several new additions.
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(January 02, 2010)
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Happy New Year
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Happy New Year to all visitors to this website and
don’t forget to have a look in the Guestbook with all New Years wishes of
fellow-collectors. Click here.
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(January 01, 2010)
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For earlier issues of
this News Bulletin see the archive in the left column, click here.
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Disclaimer
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We cannot accept any
responsibility for the content of this or for external websites accessed
via a link in this homepage. All information in all pages of this website
and all published links have been carefully reviewed and compiled. The
provider of the website to which published links lead is solely responsible
for any illegal, erroneous or incomplete content and for any losses or
damages arising out of the use or non-use of that information. No liability will be
accepted by the party which merely refers to such a website via a link.
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