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A Great Bottle – Chorley’s – 10 to 11 October (lot 786)
Holly pointed this one out tonight and I had to embloggen. It’s the leather bottle that Baker talks about on p182 as possibly one of the bottles used to collect the wine tax on the Thames. This… more →
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A Great Bottle - Chorley's - 10 to 11 October (lot 786)
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wrote 6 months ago: Holly pointed this one out tonight and I had to embloggen. It’s the leather bottle that Baker … more →
Shouting at the Internet (again)
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wrote 11 months ago: A friend pointed this one out on the Internet and I had to share it and my musings. Lot 479 A Late 1 … more →
Three leather fire buckets at Cawdor Castle
wrote 11 months ago: Three leather firebuckets at the top of the main stairs in Cawdor Castle, dating to the late 18th or … more →
National Museum of Scotland - Leather Gallery
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wrote 1 year ago: There’s a proverbial cow somewhere that’s starting to look nervous… I’ve fin … more →
Cotehele House Leather Vessel Gallery
wrote 1 year ago: I give in. I’m only about 2/3 of the way through the Scottish National Museum photos and I jus … more →
Punch decorated Jack
wrote 1 year ago: I saw this one the other day and thought it made a great alternative for those who don’t want … more →
81A5749 finished at last
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wrote 1 year ago: Those that have been reading since April will no doubt be pleased to hear that I finally finished th … more →
Museum of Edinburgh Gallery
wrote 1 year ago: Here’s the first of the promised galleries. The Museum of Edinburgh is at 143 Cannongate acros … more →
Photography and historic sites - some bits off topic
wrote 1 year ago: This trip differed from the previous two in the proliferation of both steam trains and leather vesse … more →
The (An?) Oxford Joiner's Jack
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wrote 1 year ago: Some time back I wrote about the dodgy habit dating of jacks based on painted decoration and used th … more →
A sign
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wrote 1 year ago: We’re back from Blighty and only have 8,000 photos to sort. Galleries get consistently high sc … more →
What's Cooking?
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wrote 1 year ago: We got back from Blacktown Medieval Fair last weekend and one of the early jobs (other than hanging … more →
Mary Rose Costrel 81A5749
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wrote 2 years ago: [The] mediaeval bottle does not differ much from those examples which still survive. It has however … more →
When good pitches turn bad...
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wrote 2 years ago: Sometimes when I’m making a leather bottel, particularly if it is for someone younger or I thi … more →
Testing plans
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wrote 2 years ago: Sorry things have been a bit quite here, real life has a habit of getting in the way. However I now … more →
That's not from armour.
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wrote 2 years ago: Many of you will know of the UK Portable Antiquities Scheme and its excellent on-line database. I … more →
Contemporary Makers: Original 17th-18th Century Leather Powder Horn
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wrote 2 years ago: Over on Contemporary Makers, they have a nice post on a leather powder horn. There’s two thing … more →
Mary Rose Leather Gallery
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wrote 2 years ago: I’ve finally managed to get organised enough to upload my photos from the Mary Rose Museum. … more →
Leather Buckets in London
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wrote 2 years ago: My friend Helmut has returned from his sojourn in Blighty. On his penultimate day he did a pilgrimag … more →
