I've been doing much of the same cataloging and researching objects at the museum, except with different collections. After the Oceania collection, I moved on to toy boats-- little clockwork tin model boats from the 1920s to the 1980s. I have to admit they look like fun, especially the submarines. Too bad I can't try them out...
After that came the "medical boxes". I thought museum cataloging couldn't get any worse than arsenic-stuffed taxidermied birds until I opened up one of these and found a Civil War surgery kit, complete with amputation saws. I've seen many of these in museums before, but let me tell you, there is a whole lot of difference when they are safely behind a piece of glass as opposed to just sitting there in front of you. Fail me out of grad school, I don't care, I am not going to take those things out of their box for individual pictures!
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| I'll skip a picture of that collection and leave you with Robert E. Lee and his pony, Traveller |
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| old lighthouse lantern |
What thrills me is that YOU are allowed to handle all these things that we would get our hands slapped if we tried to even "touch" one!! Amputation saws?! I am really living vicariously through you! (I don't want to disarm anyone...I would just like to look up close and personal at these things...)
ReplyDeleteAs for the lamps: how fun! You can plan interior decor ad infinitum!