If you look at the painting in Stockholm, you'll see the mustache is handled quite differently with a series of feathers on either side of the mouth creating the mustache. I'd go with the feather from a quill theory.
Susan
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>From: Alfred Willis <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Thu Jul 21 11:58:30 CDT 2005
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>Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] can you identify this "mustache"?
>An ear of maize?
>
>Al Willis
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>An unopened and fairly flat mussel, in profile? Definitely something with bilateral symmetry along the horizontal axis... See http://www.ocparks.com/tidepools/graphics/Mussel4.jpg for a non-profile view of a mussel shell that I could imagine turned on its side as that moustache.
>
> EB.
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>
> Hello. I have been investigating the painting of a man made
> out of books, _The Librarian_ (1566), by Giuseppe Arcimboldo,
> and I am also interested in a modified version of the image
> by Georg Philipp Harsd?rffer (1642).
>
> I would appreciate your expert assistance in identifying the
> object acting as the "mustache" (I think) in Harsd?rffer's
> print. The url below should take you to this image.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/99nmt
>
> I look forward to receiving your responses--thanks very much
> for you help! --K.C.
>
>
> Ms. K.C. Elhard
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