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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Dear colleagues, I recently 'rediscovered' this small metal item in a box of papers which had belonged to antiquarians Llewellyn Jewitt and W. H. Goss. Colleagues pointed me in the direction of a list of artefacts and documents which came to the museum on the death of Goss in 1906. The list includes reference to: Samuel Johnson's snuff box and Lord Nelson's flint. These are unlikely to be antiquarian exaggerations - the papers found with this box include handwritten items (receipt, letter, autograph) from WM Thackerey, General Gordon, George Cruikshank and Kossuth.. Could this box be a snuff box or a flint? The upper compartment in the box has been used for 'striking' something - see jpg 012. You may just notice on jpg 009 that there are some slight indentations on the side of the box, as though something pointed has been tapped against it. Any comments on the attached gratefully received. It is great that after nearly seven years of curating the social history collections here (I've looked after the archaeology collections for 19 years), I can still find 'new' exciting things (I am making no comment on the documentation..) Regards Deb ************************************************************ Deb Klemperer, Collections Officer (Local History) The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Bethesda Street, Hanley Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3DW England [log in to unmask] +44 (0)1782 232323 Please visit our website at http://www.stoke.gov.uk/museums ************************************************************ The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST