Artist Kit Williams' early clues on how to decipher the Masquerade

The English artist, illustrator and author Christopher ‘Kit’ Williams (b.1946) is best known for the book 'Masquerade', the pictorial storybook which contained clues to the location of an 18ct gold jewelled hare buried somewhere in the British countryside. It created quite a sensation in 1979.

Some of the inspiration for Masquerade came from a 2ft 9in (83cm) high ‘orrery’ that Williams had …

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