Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-04-02
EL|zABETHAN JEWELM
ON EXHIBIT IN LONDON
Jacobean Trinkets Also Placed on
View at Museum by Sir
Guy Laking.

Specla Correspondence OF Tee Star.
LONDON. March -. 1914.
The delightful surprise which Sir Guy
Laking. the kings armorer and organizer
Of the London Museum. has had ready
for antiquar ies and art lovers is out
Yesterday newspapermen were given a
private view of the museum in its stately
permanent home at Stafford House. be-
tween buckingham Palace and St. James
Palace They found the surprise incased
in the gold room--1J0 pieces OF Jacobean
and Eliza bethan jeWelry and goldsmiths
work OF the finest kind. some of il matcn-
less. all beautiful in execution and in con-
dition perfect except that the pearls Of
the rings and pendants had persisted. The
whole trove, anG more besides. which is
now in the British Museum. was found
two Years ago by a workman employed
in cXcavating near st. Pauls churchyard.
Where the museum authorities will not
say. but il may have been the great en-
cavation on the site of the old st. Mar
tin s-le-Grand general post office.
The jewels enough to stock shop OF
the period, had been concealed below the
cellar of an old house. how or why no one
can tell. The man who found them has
been rewarded by the crown, and has
kept his own counsel. Londoners may
never know his name. but they are all in
ueDleu 10 nun. ne pOpuldi dltlthdS W
ward treasure-trove is such and the DIS
trust of the crown rewards SO strong that
most workmen would have tried to take
the stuff to a receivers there to be melt
ed. broken and destroyed forever, or else
smuggled to America.
Collection Growing Fast.
Sir William Levers gift 10 the nation
was we'll employed when Stafford House
Id oc Il n
relics and history. The collection housed
there is recent in inception. but already
amazingly fun and interesting. What is
better. it is growing at such a pace that
the cura tors find it impossible to issue a
catalogue because it would be out of Gate
before it had been printed. From the an
Gent British and Roman canoes and oarses
in the basement and their accompanying
models of the first city of London. up to
the Turpn. Wild and Newgate relics ana
the already quaint mementoes of Victorian
life and men-all is intimate, interesting
and well displayed.
Americans will especially be delighted
at the exhibition. for such is the excel
lent arrangement that one goes from
room to room in sort of progressive
tour Of London history Everything IS
plainly labeled and all chronologcally
arranged. The models of old London at
different epochs form the most interest
crosses the threshold of Stafford House
he thinks instnctvely of the proudly
digniied and aristocratic looking hall
porter who used to be there, and wonders
what would be his sensations if he could
come back from Canada. whittier he emf
grated shortly before the late Duke OF
Sutherland sold the mansion, and could
see the representatives of the press
mounting the magnificent double stair
case with the air of those who had the
No n wa
of these stairs, by the way, that Mr..
Gladstone once stood at great social
function and the G. o. NJ. watched with
interest the streams of brave men and
beautiful women. more or less decollete,
ascending. He was lost in admiration OF
the scene. whereupon a lady who was
standing near remarked: II thought you,
at least objected to bare majority
Brandon's Skull on View.
Sir Guy Laking, the curator, who is
Londoner both by birth and education