Hi Devadatta,
Thank you for the response. Interesting to see the same bird mark on one of the examples in that thread. Also interesting is that the dates used were Gregorian dates on those examples as well... I wonder - was this a provincial Jordanian custom, or due to the fact there was a decently large Christian community in Jordan for quite some time (I don't know about now)?
BTW, I remember that thread, if only for the following comment in response to your OP:
"before an Arabic course, may be you might see for a photographic course
"
LOL...
I hadn't followed the thread through to its conclusion, though...
Chris