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Description: | MANU ANON C19th Glasgow Scotland Our donor?s father was a journeyman joiner and was one of a squad of men who dismantled the roof of the old Glasgow College. Our donor remembers his father talking about how people arrived in carriages and other conveyances wishing to obtain souvenirs of the old College buildings. The workers were being offered half sovereigns for pieces of wood from the roof. Our donor?s father cut two pieces of wood from the rafters, each about a foot long, and took them home as his souvenir. He later found that this wood, which was very hard oak, was mostly in poor condition having many old iron nails, some twisted, embedded in it. There was only one bit suitable for making an object and from this he made the egg cup.
Our donor?s father was a talented craftsman and, while still only an apprentice, was trusted to make the window frames for the arched windows of the Athenaeum building in the centre of Glasgow. He worked mainly in the Glasgow area but also on Deanston House, near Doune in Perthshire. This house contains some remarkable woodwork.
Our donor was born in 1905 and is now 101 years of age. This egg cup is one of his treasured possessions and it will now be safe in the Hunterian Museum. It joins other wooden objects related to the history of the University and kept in the Historical Collection. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | UNIVERSITY HISTORY : EUROPE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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