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Symmetry
There’s always a symmetry in finds, somehow.
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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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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…