For April’s Crocodile mystery, take a look at this image and let us know what you think is going on!
As always, leave your comments and we’ll be back next week with more information!… Continue Reading
Posts Categorized: Crocodile-mystery
It’s said that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. The Collation‘s March 2020 Crocodile Mystery, however, comes in with a unicorn and stag, and the following questions: what is this object, and why is it two-tone?… Continue Reading
Welcome back to our monthly Crocodile Mystery! For those of you (ahem) mystified by this designation for our reoccurring series of posts, take a look at the post where it was named! For the question this month, we’re returning to our roots and asking “what manner of thing is this?” aka what is going on here? what do you notice about the image below?… Continue Reading
Welcome to the final Crocodile Mystery of 2019! As we close out the year (and the decade!), we invite you to look at the image below and tell us, if you can, what on earth it’s talking about?!
Leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments below, and we’ll be back next week with an explanation.… Continue Reading
Thanks for the great guesses at the identity of the November 2019 Crocodile. It’s tempting to pick one at random and just run with it (“Why yes, it is King Lear’s lost button!”) but in fact, Robin Swope’s guess that it’s an old coin is correct. It is, in fact, a bronze prutah of Porcius Festus, Roman procurator of Judea. It’s dated the 5th year of Emperor Nero’s rule, which means it’s from 58 or 59 CE.… Continue Reading
The November 2019 Crocodile Mystery is a two-parter…. What is this? And why is it part of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s collection?
Please use the Comments section for answers, guesses, ridiculous speculation, and so on. Check back next week for the full story.… Continue Reading
For this month’s Crocodile Mystery, we ask you, our wonderful readers:
What is this thing, and what is it made of?
As always, comment with your thoughts and guesses and we’ll be back next week with more information!… Continue Reading
We’re back! For this month’s Crocodile Mystery, we ask a classic question: what’s going on with this image? What is the purpose or function of the image shown?
As always, leave your thoughts in the comments below, and we’ll be back next week with more information!… Continue Reading
When, in Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s famous teen suicide play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet muses “[w]hat’s in a name? That which we call a rose / [b]y any other word would smell as sweet,” it’s lucky for her that she isn’t speaking to a librarian. Although her sentiment is poetic, we librarians prefer to be a bit more precise when it comes to terminology.… Continue Reading
Tell us what you think is going on here! If you have correctly answered a crocodile post in the last 6 months, please consider giving it a couple days for others to have a guess, and no checking Hamnet, either…… Continue Reading
