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Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Silverdale Hoard at the Lancaster Museum
The Silverdale Hoard is on loan from the London Museum until the 7th December 2014. The hoard was found in a field by a metal detectorist in 2011 and consists of over 200 pieces of silver jewellery, coins and hack silver.
The find dates to about AD 900 which was a time of intense conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and the Danish settlers of Northern England.
Other hoards found in the area include the Cuerdale Hoard found by workmen in 1840 (which is the largest ever found in the U.K)., The Huxley Hoard found in Cheshire in 2004 and the Furness Hoard found in 2011 and now in the Dock museum, Barrow-in-Furness.
Detector finds at ebid
Friday, 10 September 2010
Museum buttons
While on holiday in Hereford last week i photographed a few buttons from various museums that i visited, the buttons below are from Leominster Folk Museum (prononced Lemster) in the UK.
These tiny buttons are 19th century Hoptons Cordonnet buttons which were made from doubled twisted coarse silk thread.
These are Mother of Pearl buttons, used on a wide variety of clothing especially childrens clothes such as Christening Robes or even Workwear. These days such buttons are prized by people who make hand made jewellery.
This plain brown Victorian dress had a set of 8 black glass buttons with gold lustre flower detail, at specialistauctions we have a variety of antique/vintage glass buttons for sale
The buttons below are in the Hereford museum
Horn was a by-product of the cattle industry and was used for domestic items such as lanterns, horn beakers and buttons. These buttons along with bone would be used on everyday clothes such as workwear (smocks). The buttons above are sliced slivers worked into shape and polished.
Horn products for sale at specialistauctions
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