Written by whoever was cataloguing that week
From the register
What came in, what we worked out, and what we still cannot date. These are the curators' notes rather than press releases, so they include the objects we got wrong and the one from 1948 that cannot be traced.
What came in between April and June
Nineteen objects accessioned this quarter, including a set of shutter hinges nobody can date.
Reading the Vale Royal foundry mark
The mark is cast into the end post, not stamped, and there are three versions of it.
Why 1948, and what the first fourteen objects were
The museum opened with fourteen objects on two trestle tables in a room on Duke Street.
Typing up the register, one box at a time
Eleven thousand four hundred handwritten entries, and how far we have got.
