Queer Relics

Northland Age, Volume 28, Issue 2, 9 December 1927, Page 5

Queer Relics

A Strange Bequest Rather a strange bequest occurred in a recent will. The testator, a barrister, bequeathed to his son “the flowers and leaves winch fell'from Queen Victoria’s coffin at Paddington Station, and were picked up by me after the departure of the iuneral train, and were mounted by me, with their frame and the brass casket in which they are kept.” Relics of Queen Victoria are carefully treasured in a number of British homes. In some humble cottage you will find such precious things as the teacup out of which the Queen drank on the never to be forgotten occasion when she called on her subject—perhaps a tenant on ene of the Royal estates—perhaps an old servant and took tea with her. They are family heirlooms for which the American collector would offer in vain. Hero-worship, and the very human desire to have some memento of its object, has been turned to good account in the cause 01 charity in recent years. Rats signed by famous cricketers-, ♦or instance, often feten a good price in aid of a charitable object.