In 1920 the Rose brothers and Victor Morris opened their eponymous store - it is still there, and now the capital's largest music shop.

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Not too long ago, as Okie Morris went through a thrift store, she saw a Mason jar in one room and a glass candlestick holder in another, and inspiration struck.

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Quite by chance, Berryman's cartoon was noticed by a Russian Jewish immigrant to America named Morris Michtom, who by day sold candy in his store in Brooklyn, while by night making stuffed animals with his wife Rose.

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"It is a game of couples, of partners, of love and community, " says Morris Zadok, 62, owner of a sporting-goods store dedicated largely to matkot and regarded as one of the sport's leading advocates.

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