‘In the choir, the girls would wear white dresses and green sashes with Tara brooches pinned at the left shoulder.’

Mary Warrener, 2002

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Introducing Object of the Month! Each month we will be featuring an object from our collection that is not a part of any of our current displays. We will have this object on display in a place of honour for one month.
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#artiFACT This Oliver No. 5 Standard Visible Writer was a model commonly found in offices. It was produced between 1907 and 1914.
ID: 1972.621.1462
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#artiFACT This Beuscher trombone belonged to Carl Whitney, the first barber to set up shop in Westview. Whitney was also a member of the first community band.
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#artiFACT While most of the population uses their phones for everything these days, alarm clocks like this one were required for waking up on time.
ID: 1974.194.1
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#artiFACT This is a ceramic hot water bottle, which were also called Stone Pigs. This nickname comes from the Scots word pig, meaning an earthenware pot.
ID: 1963.4.1
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We definitely had fun with these drawings: disk brooches with cloisonné [6/7th cent. CE]😍
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#artiFACT These two paperweights, which are spectacularly spooky for this Halloween, were made by prolific local photographer Rod LeMay. He made them in 1939.
ID: 1972.315.1
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#artiFACT This miniature camera and its yellow leather carrying was once believed to have been stolen from the Museum! Thankfully that wasn't the case.
ID: 1977.12.1
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In honour of the Blackberry Festival, this week's featured object is a soap dish with a blackberry design that was made at Cranberry Pottery.

Object ID: 2013.83.8

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#artiFACT This model was made by Ed Everett in 1965. It an example of a whaling ship used in the mid and late 1800s, though this particular model is of 'The Pilgrim' - a boat that exists in the story 'Two Years Before the Mast'.
ID: 1988.56.2983
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Our #objectoftheweek is MU0839, a #ceramic #dove , possibly from #Athens , c. 450 BCE.

#Animals feature frequently in both modern and ancient ceramics. #MUHM #ancientceramics #animalpottery

Inspired by the weather we selected this snow filled scene as our object of the week!

A striking example of Gothic Revival, Dromore Castle, Pallaskenry, was designed by E.W. Godwin for Lord Glentworth, third Earl of Limerick.

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Today we present the fourth #ObjectoftheWeek dedicated to the life of Buddha. This frieze with two separated scenes shows events from the Birth Cycle. The scenes are separated by a framed semi-column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type. 1/5

Our #ObjectoftheWeek is this beautiful piece from the archives London Met Uni designed by a student enrolled on the silversmith and jewellery course at London Guildhall University, during the mid-90s.

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Today's #ObjectOfTheWeek is a narrative relief depicting Māyā’s dream. Māyā, the queen consort of king Śuddhodana, dreams of a white elephant entering her womb through her right side. As soon as she wakes up, she finds out to be pregnant. 1/4

#objectoftheweek postcard of Brand Street in 1904 looking virtually unrecognisable from today! #Hitchin Town Hall and the future site of our museum are hidden by the Coffee Rooms Temperance Hotel and the Dog Inn on the left of the shot.

During his captivity in Changi gaol Private Mark Flew formed a friendship with a Dutch prisoner. The two men created two identical rings from an opal the Dutch prisoner had, to ensure the two friends would recognise each other should they met again in the future. #objectoftheweek

Today’s #ObjectOfTheWeek is an explosive device disguised as a lump of coal, which was used by the SOE and partisan groups to carry out unattributable sabotage. Disguised explosive devices like this one could have been used to sabotage and disrupt enemy convoys and transportation

Voici, en guise d’objet de la semaine, un troisième assemblage que j’ai constitué en faisant encadrer des clichés de presse montrant des inondations, à Paris, ailleurs en France et dans le monde…
Il en reste encore à venir !

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