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Description: | The Olive Matthews Collection (approximately 5,000 items) is on long term loan from the Olive Matthews Trust and contains (see also Costume/textiles) ceramics, silver, furniture and clocks originally belonging to the late Miss Olive Matthews of Virginia Water. Miss Matthews acquired much of the material from the Old Caledonian Market in North London before 1939 and more rarely at auction sales.
The Oliver Collection (approximately 2000 items) is on long term loan from the Oliver Trust, set up in 1985 to oversee the care and administration of the collection of Sydney Oliver of Egham, an antiques dealer, valuer and local historian. The collection consists of paintings and prints, photographs, costume, ephemera, clocks and social history objects, many of local significance but also including non-local material.
The Tulk Bequest (60 items) of clocks, furniture and miscellaneous items were bequeathed by Mr J Tulk in 1962. The museum holds a horology collection of regional significance with local makers such as James Douglass and Henry Wale Cartwright represented and including an 1851 regulator clock displayed at the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | The Cedars
33 Windsor Street
Chertsey Surrey United Kingdom,
KT16 8AT | FAX: | 01932 571 118 | Telephone: | 01932 565764 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5889 | Go to resource |
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