PLOUGHMAN FINDS A FORTUNE. Emil Joensson, n Swedish farm-hand, has found a fortune. He was ploughing a field iu Krupp, a parish of Skitane, the most southerly of the old provinces of Sweden, when he saw someth.ng blue and white in a freshly-turned furrow. He stopped his team. The plough hud turned up a fine bit of porcelain and scattered the gold and silver coins that it once contained. Joensson fetched his master, who brought an archaeologist, and between them they unearthed a hoard of treasure, about 400 old coins and beautiful ornaments made by master silversmiths when their art was at its zenith. Among them are the mountings of a belt decorated with garlands of acanthus and carnations, and nu exquisite little Madonna standing on a crescent moon. ft is believed the treasure must have belonged to some nobleman. • As the ornaments are among the finest specimens of their kind now existing, they have been purchased by the State Historical Museum, and the farm-hand is now a rich man. Some of the ornaments are about 450 years old, and must have been family heirlooms. Their proud owners can little have guessed that they would one day bring a ploughman a fortune.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 13
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