GIFT ANTIQUES
LAST SHIPMENT SENT. LONDON, January 7. The shipment of English antiques 6S in number, sent recently to the Hobart Museum, Tasmania, is the last collection that will be sent to the Dominions from the Guildhall Museum. London. The City of London Corporation have exhausted their supplies of Roman and medieval antiques which, have been sent as gifts dur.ng the past ten. years. The gift scheme was established by the library committee 1 to foster relations between Britain and the Dominions.
Shipments containing on an average 60 articles from 400 to 1900 years of age have been sent to museums in Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney, also in Canada. The last shipment included:
A pigment spoon used by a Roman woman at her toilet and part of a wax tablet on which she had written a love letter.
Part of a shoe, a wig curler and a man’s pipe used in the Stuart period. Bronze coins of the Roman emperors which were ofteu forged by merchants owing to the shortage of small change.
A wooden water pipe which brought supplies to London in the 18th century.
Small clay pipes smoked in the 16th century.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 February 1939, Page 10
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