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Occult Inspired Mudlark Folk Art
Now available to buy in my online shop, an occult folk art inspired box frame display made from repurposed finds from the mysterious tidal Thames. Tiny metal objects, my favourite foreshore bits and pieces, include copper, brass, iron, lead, tin and alloys, and feature treasured objects such as hand made Tudor pins and hand forged…
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Jacks, Snobs, Knucklebones, Chuckstones…
❄️Mudlark’s Advent, Day 7❄️ Jacks, Snobs, Knucklebones, Chuckstones… what do you know it as? Dating back to before the Greeks, the game of Chucks (I’m going with this name, as China clay dice, like this one I found on the foreshore, were used) has been as big a mainstay in the playground as hopscotch or…
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Victorian Clay Pipe
❄️Mudlarks Advent, Day 6❄️ Incomplete Victorian clay pipe, bust of Queen Victoria on one side, crown on the other. No other marks but I suspect it was made to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee in 1897. . According to a Chris Jarrett of the Society for Clay Pipe Research, “a possible pipe maker for this bowl…
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British Made and Anthrax Free
❄️ Mudlark’s Advent, Day 4❄️ Hog bristle shaving brush, ‘British Made. Sterilised. Free From Anthrax.’ A small yet mighty shaving brush just like this one was once in the firing line for the death of a man: “At Hull, on September 9, when the inquiry into the cause of the death of Joseph Taylor was…