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Description: | This white enamel box is transfer printed in black with a twelve-month calendar split between the lid and the base and the inscription `A New Year's Gift for 1758'. The sides of the box are printed with important dates and figures. These include feast days, the King's birthday and other attributes of the year such as the Dominical Letter, which was used for calculating the date of Easter, and the `epact' or the difference between the solar and lunar calendars. This box was made in Birmingham, but similar boxes were also made by Anthony Tregent in Denmark Street, London.
Oblong box transfer printed in black over white with a calendar on cover and inscription 'A New Year's Gift for 1758' on base. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Manufacturing industry Decorative arts Metalworking industries Enamels Georgian period | Temporal: | 1757
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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