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One the final day of the year a visit to the super-haunted Knowlton Church near Cranborne. There is a little grotto nearby of offerings to those that have passed
Original photographs of the German zoologist and naturalist, Ernst Haeckel, as well as the geographer, Hans Meyer, at a family gathering in Jena in 1912
Things usually go disastrously wrong when I decide to do any DIY, but managed to make a bug hotel from an old wine rack, garden gunk and a moth-eaten scarf. Now open for business but need a name...
Lovely harlequin cloth on this 1859 second edition of G.W. Septimus Piesse’s “Chymical Natural and Physical Magic”
A Victorian stereoscope card of the sheela-na-gig (a naked woman displaying an exaggerated open vulva) in the Church of St. Mary and St. David in Kilpeck, Herefordshire. It also briefly featured in the 1970 film “ Legend if the Witches”
A signed copy of the sculptural works created by the visual artist Tim Shaw, published in 2015
Damien Hirst 1991 limited edition exhibition catalogue from his first solo exhibition at the I.C.A.
A rare pair of sales brochures c.1930-31 for the Baird Televisor, the first commercially available television receiver in the U.K. Around 1000 sets were made and sold for just over £26
A lovely six card Peepshow by Martin Engelbrecht c.1750-60, titled on paper wrappers “Popish Chapel”