Brief description: black and white photograph [copy] of members of The Spider Gang, retired gentlemen of Mere, seated on a bench by Warminster Hollow, Mere, c.1920s
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 15 cm
width: 20.5 cm
Classifications:
societies | personalia |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: black metal hand operated orange cutter, with wooden pressing implement, for making marmalade, with maker’s name and ‘The ‘Rapid’ Marmalade Cutter’ embossed on it.
Associated person: Follows & Bate Ltd
height: 37 cm
width: 19.5 cm
Classifications:
domestic | kitchen | domestic | agriculture | harvest |
Material: ?iron, steel, wood
Condition: good; a little rust on clamp
Brief description: a pair of hames, made of metal and wood, part of the harness of a carthorse, ?early 20th century
height: 83 cm
width: 19 cm
Classifications:
agriculture | horse | agriculture | cultivation |
Material: iron, wood
Condition: fair; some rust throughout
Brief description: a pair of brown leather blinkers, part of a carthorse harness, stitched with white cord and decorated with a pattern made with small stiches, each with a chain attached and teminating in a metal hook and ring. Each blinker bears a small brass plate inscribed with a monogram: I [or J] A B. ?nineteenth century
Associated person: I A B
Associated date: 1850
height: 49 cm
width: 11.3 cm
Classifications:
agriculture | horse | trade | harness maker |
Material: leather, thread, iron, brass
Condition: some damage to stitching and to leather; metal rusting
Brief description: a brass ring with a threaded screw and nut, used to attach the reins to a carthorse harness, 19th century [?]
depth: 3.5 cm
height: 11 cm
Classifications:
agriculture | horse | trade | harness maker |
Material: brass
Condition: good, brass dirty
Brief description: metal [steel?] tin opener with long handle with a hole at the further end. A right-angled [?iron] blade is screwed onto the handle to look like an animal’s head, 19th century [?]
height: 19 cm
width: 5.5 cm
Classifications:
domestic | kitchen | trade | engineer |
Material: ? steel ?
Condition: mainly good, a little rust on the blade
Brief description: metal [steel?] tin opener, the looped handle partly lost, the blade end modelled with the head of a cow. A right-angled [?iron] blade is screwed onto the handle, 19th century [?]
height: 16.3 cm
width: 5.5 cm
Classifications:
domestic | kitchen | trade | engineer |
Material: ? steel ?
Condition: part of the handle has been broken off,and there is rust on the blade
Brief description: 26-page illustrated booklet about Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie, potter, latterly of Kilmington, Wilts, and her work
Associated person: Pleydell-Bouverie, Katharine
Associated date: 1895
height: 21
width: 15 cm
Classifications:
domestic craft | person | decorative art | ceramics |
Material: paper, printing ink
Condition: good
Brief description: laminated copy of a photograph of the 3rd Wessex [Mere] Home Guard, during W.W. II, 1939 – 1945. The men in the photograph are almost all named.
Place: Mere
County: Wiltshire
height: 20.7 cm
width: 25.4 cm
Classifications:
person | arms | arms | uniforms |
Material:
Condition: good
Brief description: coloured photograph of the presentation by Councillor Mary Douglas to Dr. David Longbourne, Hon. Curator, of the Wiltshire Museum’s Volunteer of the Year Award at Mere Museum, October 7th 2006
height: 13 cm
width: 15.8 cm
Classifications:
person | events | society | museum |
Material:
Condition: excellent