From: mshaw@panix.com   
      
   Don Freeman  wrote:   
   > On 3/28/2022 7:36 PM, Mark Shaw wrote:   
      
   > > Saw this one elseforum today. I dimly recall it from the Before   
   > > Time, but my googlegroup-fu seems to be weak.   
   > >   
   > > Supposedly, when you sat for a portrait, there was a base fee and   
   > > a surcharge per limb. And that's why some historical figures are   
   > > pictured with an arm behind their back.   
   > >   
   > > Anyone else?   
      
   > Not only that, but it has been attributed (incorrectly) as the basis for   
   > the term "cost an arm and a leg".   
      
   > From:   
   >    
      
   Thanks. This is, indeed, the very thing I was asking about - not   
   that I was at all clear about that.   
      
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   Mark Shaw                                        moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm   
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