Open the pages of the "Good Curry Guide" (Coronet £6.99), and you will discover that all is not well.
One was a headband with a mother-of-pearl shell supporting an openwork tortoiseshell plaque, somewhat analogous to a Melanesian kapkap, the other a coronet of concave strips of white shell alternating with engraved strips of tortoiseshell.
The word coronet signifies a small or lesser crown.
In coronet settings the form may be conical or pyramidal, solid or pierced.
Anglican bishops in England place over their shield a mitre; but the bishop of Durham, as a bishop palatinate (bishop of a county whose lord had regal powers), has the mitre in a ducal coronet (a coronet decorated with three strawberry leaves), and behind his shield is a sword and crosier in saltire (diagonally crossed).
The coronet is silver gilt and has an inner cap of crimson velvet with a gilt tassel and a narrow border of ermine.
The prince of Wales (heir apparent) has a special coronet, or demi-crown, of gold crossed by a single arch from front to back, and the coronets of other near relatives of the sovereign bear alternate crosses and fleurs-de-lis.
For state occasions, the 19th-century Napoleonic court imitated the parures of the ancien régime, with the addition of a jeweled coronet of classic form.
JD Wetherspoon had apologised to the eight individuals who were denied entry to the Coronet for any "upset and distress" caused, he added.
On his travels he would carry around a small leather case, embossed with a coronet and a capital "C", indicating association with the earls of Cardigan.
What exactly, apart from an interest in the potential of jewellery, has Louis Osman's Coronet for the Prince of Wales's 1969 Caernarvon investiture got to do with David Bowie and an androgynous identity so carefully developed on his vinyl album sleeves?
