User:Fuseduletecil

Fuseduletecil has borrowed his Wikipedia user name from an English maker of serpents around 1800, Fusedule Tecil. In fact, Fusedule Tecil was not a maker at all. His name was extrapolated from a worn inscription on an English military serpent that was, for many years, part of the Rushworth and Dreaper collection of antique musical instruments in Liverpool. As Eric Halfpenny clarified in his article "Lament for 'Fusedule Tecil,'" Galpin Society Journal, Vol 17. (February 1964), 113-114, Fusedule Tecil was, in fact, John Fusedale of 14 Dartmouth Street, London, after whose name the word Fecit appeared. John Fusedale, Fecit, became Fusedule Tecil.