NO MORE ANTIQUES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 6

NO MORE ANTIQUES

LAST SHIPMENT SENT lO TASMANIA GIU SCHEME HAS RUN FOR TEN YEARS I H.v Air Mail Special I'orrenpoixlent 1 LONDON. 7th January. The shipment of English antiques, 68 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 during the past ten years. The gift scheme was established by the library committee to foster relations between Britain and the Dominions Shipments containing on an average 60 articles from 400 to 1900 years of age have been tent 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 ol a wax tablet on which she had written a love letter. Part ot a shoe, a wig curler and a man’s pipe used in the Stuart period Bronze coins of the Roman emperors Trade tokens of the 17th century which were olten 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.