diff --git a/doc/fixes36.2 b/doc/fixes36.2
index b4437d63a..b080b417d 100644
--- a/doc/fixes36.2
+++ b/doc/fixes36.2
@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ vibrating square is not really a trap so monsters don't need to avoid it
 if hero kicks some embedded gold out of a wall while following vault gaurd
 	away from vault, don't report "the guard _calms_down_and_ picks up
 	the gold" unless he's on brink of going ballistic
+for '/?' information lookup, "item named The Artifact" failed to find info
+	about "Artifact" due to presence of "The"
 
 
 Fixes to Post-3.6.1 Problems that Were Exposed Via git Repository
diff --git a/src/pager.c b/src/pager.c
index 6982860c9..f15c40f59 100644
--- a/src/pager.c
+++ b/src/pager.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6	pager.c	$NHDT-Date: 1545129848 2018/12/18 10:44:08 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.142 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6	pager.c	$NHDT-Date: 1545361111 2018/12/21 02:58:31 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.2-beta01 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.143 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /*-Copyright (c) Robert Patrick Rankin, 2018. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
@@ -576,6 +576,8 @@ char *supplemental_name;
         if (*dbase_str == ' ')
             ++dbase_str;
     }
+    if (!strncmp(dbase_str, "pair of ", 8))
+        dbase_str += 8;
     if (!strncmp(dbase_str, "tame ", 5))
         dbase_str += 5;
     else if (!strncmp(dbase_str, "peaceful ", 9))
@@ -640,6 +642,14 @@ char *supplemental_name;
             ep = strstri(dbase_str, ", ");
         if (ep && ep > dbase_str)
             *ep = '\0';
+        /* remove article from 'alt' name ("a pair of lenses named
+           The Eyes of the Overworld" simplified above to "lenses named
+           The Eyes of the Overworld", now reduced to "The Eyes of the
+           Overworld", skip "The" as with base name processing) */
+        if (!strncmpi(alt, "a ", 2)
+            || !strncmpi(alt, "an ", 3)
+            || !strncmpi(alt, "the ", 4))
+            alt = index(alt, ' ') + 1;
         /* remove charges or "(lit)" or wizmode "(N aum)" */
         if ((ep = strstri(dbase_str, " (")) != 0 && ep > dbase_str)
             *ep = '\0';