94/1998/17
“This was made in the environs of Ibri in Oman.
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94/1998/95
94/1998/96
114/2003/53
85/1999/2
This is the runner from a sledge which was discovered at the ancient Egyptian stone quarry of Tura in Egypt.
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263/1903/4564
This microscope slide (’salicin’) was donated as part of WP Sladen’s collection.
47/1978/7D
silver and glass salt celler with lion heads and feet.
52/1928/11
Made by Josiah Williams & Co.
112/1933/2
Engraved with an Exeter and London mail coach and the inscription: ‘THIS SALVER PURCHASED BY SUBSCRIPTION WAS PRESENTED TO MR WILLm.
284/1998/7
Undyed sample of process of folding and stitching in preparation for resist-dyeing.
67/1919
Elizabeth Newton completed this sampler on December 8 1739.
3/1978
The verse worked in cross-stitch on this sampler was published in 1810.
293/2009
This sampler shows a variety of leadworks or filling stitches characteristic of lace made in East Devon.
14/1976
Miss Batten worked this sampler at Northleigh School, near Honiton in about 1910.
81/1926/2
This sampler is the brightly coloured work of a 7 year old girl.
1896/6/7
This piece of embroidery was done by a Cornish girl, Sibella Rowe.
55/1922
A ten year old girl stitched this colourful sampler in 1824.
58/1977
This neatly worked sampler shows the maker’s grasp of the alphabet and numerals, as well as her ability to stitch.
59/1918/3
Lydia’s father George was a gardener on the Mamhead estate.
63/1962
This sampler is mainly worked in cross-stitch, in silks on wool.
643/1989
This sampler tells the story of the Smales family of St David’s in Exeter.
7/1915
Ann Johnson’s sampler, made in 1782, may have been worked at school.
390/2007
This sampler is around 300 years old.
86/1969
The surname of the teenage maker of this sampler is confusingly like the name of the school where she is thought to have made it.
59/2000/1
A book of samples, mostly fragments from Hawaii coloured with modern dyes but the largest pieces is probably Tongan.
27/2013/44
This sand is from the collection of the late Ivor Treby.
27/2013/45
27/2013/46
27/2013/47