A miniature atlas bound for Neale Albert of New York. The binding is goatskin and has been decorated with an onlaid map of the world, the British Empire in pink. The book has been enclosed in a globe made with silver hinge and catch which has again been inlaid and onlaid with a world map…
Category: Artefacts
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Heart box made and presented to Dr. Mo Mowlem, the then Northern Ireland Secretary in the British Government. She had worked tirelessly and with persistence and good humour for peace in Northen Ireland and with US President Bill Clinton and others oversaw the talks leading to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. The inlaid shamrock…
Kaleidoscopes
A selection of kaleidoscopes bound with inlaid and tooled leather. These kaleidoscopes do not contain loose elements for pattern-making but instead a lens and prism make patterns from one’s surroundings. The kaleidoscope was invented by Professor Sir David Brewster in 1816 at St Andrew’s University, Fife. Four views of a kaleidoscope. This kaleidoscope was made…