Since his early life of protecting those falsely accused and distributing his money to the poor, Saint Nicholas has become associated with the much loved Christmas figure of Santa Claus. The connection they have with their patron saint, Nicholas, the Bishop of Myra (270-343 AD), is that he is depicted holding three bags of gold. These were hung above their places of business as a form of early advertising.
The National Pawnbrokers logo, for example, displays the famous suspended three golden balls associated with that trade in earlier times. Pawnbrokers, money lenders and those dealing in financial transactions once had a very strong association with the colour yellow, and pawnbrokers still do today. The photo clue is of a sulky, pulled along by HORSES, to transport people from here to there in days gone by. Thousands of years after the artists themselves died, these long ago images reach out to us to allow us a glimpse of that far distant time. They feature over 360 horses including that famous yellow image, 90 stags, a bear, a rhino (how amazing to think these were found in France back then), and many bulls. The 20,000 painting contained therein depict various animals, figures of humans and also puzzling geometric figures.
Perhaps the most famous of these cave paintings are those found in the Lascaux Caves in France which have been estimated to be 17,300 years old. they may show gathering honey, such as found in an 8,000 year old cave painting in Valencia, Spain - or hunting animals - or the occasional battle - or the assorted images found on rocks and caves in Australia which date back 28,000 years. The use of yellow ochre was used by very early man to paint images on the walls in various places around the world to record some aspects of daily life.
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