Sunday, 23 June 2019

Old pictures of Ramsgate and Margate and some thoughts about 1,500 year old glass.

 Wading through a collection of  books we have just bought for the bookshop I was looking in a fairly badly produced copy of Akerman's Remains of Pagan Saxondom pp3 when I came across this
reference to a glass vase found at Reculver and in a museum in Canterbury. This provided the focus to the our day in Canterbury, while I hoped to find it but failed I did find some other Saxon glass, see today's photos.

Here is the link to them

With none of the largish general East Kent bookshops buying substantial collections apart from us at the moment, here where I work at Michael's Bookshop, we are getting some reasonably interesting books in at the moment.

Here is the link to the pictures of the books we put out yesterday  



considering it would be about £1,000 per lump would you give it a second look at the boot fair or digging in the garden?










 around 1910 I think






around 1860 I think

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