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Quirks, curios, collecting: The G.P.O.
Last year I started to collect mysterious little lead squares as they began to surface on foreshore trip after foreshore trip. Knowing that they were ‘something’, but not quite knowing what that something was, I popped them in my finds bag to investigate later. Those little lead curios turned out to be mail bag seals from the…
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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…