no, etaoin, it wasn't n'aglet--it was fresh eggs!

and dr bill pointed out in a PM, that realy fresh eggs, when hardboiled, show the concentric rings of the ablumin that was layed down.. (but the chelaza disappears as the egg is cooked..)

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that's tsuwm, for the info on ferrule/ferule..
given that, a tip of shoe lace could be bound with a ferrule or an aglet..


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