You might think that the position of saucier is a relic of the French kitchen brigade system, something that people pay attention to only in the rarefied world of fine dining.
The Mosque of Pasha Yakovali Hassan, at 2 Rakoszi Street opposite the modern Pannonia Hotel, has survived intact and is often described as one of the finest Turkish relics left in Hungary.
China could certainly slow the flow of goods to Christie's, though many of the most valuable Chinese fine art and relics that go to the auction market are already outside of the mainland.
One park bench, a fine art nouveau relic from the AustroHungarian period, became a place that I came to know well.
The fine folks at New Relic have agreed to give every attendee of our Northern Meetup Series a free Nerd Life t-shirt at the door.
They have never been up for sale, but the president's blood-stained shirt collar will go under the hammer on Nov. 20, touted in the auction catalog as "the finest single 'blood relic' that exists" from the assassination night at Ford's Theater.
A 10-cent newspaper and a bottle of fine wine for $6.25 are relics of the past.
The cathedral treasury contains examples of fine medieval workmanship and sacred relics (including the supposed swaddling clothes of Jesus, as well as his crucifixion loin cloth) that are displayed to pilgrims every seven years (see Palatine Chapel).
Such quotidian items lack the profound value of relics validated by fine American and European museums masterpiece Korans, say, or Persian tapestries.
It therefore seems likely that the Dubrovnik is a relic of an ancient fine wool.
The Packers' elegant yellow-gold signet style for Super Bowl I, in 1966, with its single half-carat round diamond at the center, is a relic of an era when fine jewelry kept the volume turned down.
