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London's Lost Jewels: The Cheapside Hoard
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| #974943 in Books | 2013-11-26 | 2013-11-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.76 x.79 x7.74l,2.20 | File type: PDF | 150 pages||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating|By cathairetic|I bought this book because I love beautiful jewelry and a book full of lovely pictures was a good thing. What I didn't expect to find was a history of jewelry crafting in Britain and how the people who made jewelry built and repaired pieces. What was especially interesting was the descriptions of how they cheated by using inferior stones, gems, and||"Hazel Forsyth, the curator, spent years studying letters, stock lists and rent books as well as the objects themselves. Her patient scholarship has unearthed plenty of dubious behaviour, much of it chronicled in her excellent book, London's Lost Jewels."-The
In 1912, laborers on a building site in Cheapside in the City of London unearthed a great trove of gemstones and jewels which had lain undisturbed for some 300 years. Known and celebrated as the Cheapside Hoard it is still the largest known cache of its kind in the world. These objects, dazzlingly beautiful, intricate and often astonishing, are evocative emissaries from London's past. The Cheapside Hoard remains the single most important source of our knowledge of t...
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