Materials: Iron. Dimensions: length 9 cms. Place of Origin: England. Date: late 18th century/early 19th century. Maker: unknown. Present Location: Nutcracker Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Explanation: The tobacco stopper or a tamper became a...
Materials: Bronze. Dimensions: length 9 cms. Place of Origin: Germany? Date: late 15th century. Maker: unknown. Present Location: Nutcracker Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Explanation: Nuts, particularly almonds, played an important role in the medieval...
Materials: Brass. Dimensions: height 5 cms, diameter 2 cms. Place of Origin: England or The Netherlands. Date: late 17th century. Maker: unknown. Present Location: Nutcracker Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Explanation: Nutcrackers are traditionally thought...
Materials: Brass. Dimensions: length 7.8 cms. Place of Origin: England. Date: 1676. Maker: unknown. Present Location: Nutcracker Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Explanation: The screw’s thumbpiece is made in the form of an arched crown,...
An obituary notice was posted in the Dorset County Chronicle on 5th March 1835 regarding the passing of Mr John Rudhall of Gloucester, bell-founder. It appears that Abraham Rudhall established the family bell-founding business...
An AMS member recently acquired a heavy cast brass pot some 6″ tall with traces of a vertical casting seam between the two handles. A device is cast proud inside the rim of the...
Aaron Peever, a founder from Newcastle, moved to Edinburgh and advertised that fact in The Caledonian Mercury on 7th October 1740. Three years later, Aaron Peever appears to have been working in partnership with...
The brass founder William Packer advertised his move from Bristol to Newcastle in the Newcastle Courant newspaper on 3rd April 1725:
