Spalding Gentlemen’s Society asks you to guess what this month’s mystery Cabinet of Curiosities item is
In this month’s Cabinet of Curiosities feature, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society delves into the vaults to deliver another mystery item and asks you to work out what it is…
Sharp off the mark with the answer to last month’s mystery item was Neil Hoe, from Grantham, who correctly identified the Dutch diamond-cutting device we featured.
Neil suggested it was from the late 19th or early 20th century.
Neil wins a pair of tickets to any of the Society’s forthcoming lectures.
This month’s teaser is the penultimate in a whole year’s worth of curiosities from Spalding Gentlemen’s Society collection.
If you think you know what it is please email your answer with your full name and address to outreach@sgsoc.org by the closing date of Tuesday, November 26. The answer and the final object from Spalding Gentlemen’s Society’s Cabinet of Curiosities will appear on Tuesday, December 10.
The first correct answer out of the hat will win a pair of tickets to any of the Society’s forthcoming lectures.
The society is well known for its lecture season, which continues on Friday, December 6, with a talk about Sir Joseph Banks by Paul Scott, chairman of the Sir Joseph Banks Society.
He will present evidence linking Sir Joseph, from Lincolnshire, with the rise of manufacturing and industry in Britain.
Sir Joseph is probably best known for sailing with Captain Cook as botanist on HMS Endeavour, and for being instrumental in establishing Kew Gardens And for being president of the Royal Society for more than 41 years. He was made a Freemen of the Borough of Boston and in 1819 became Recorder for Boston, the town’s senior magistrate or judge in the local courts. His portrait, painted for the corporation of Boston, hangs in the town’s Guildhall Museum.
All lectures are held at Broad Street Methodist Church and start at 7.30pm and cost just £5.
Spalding Gentlemen’s Society is one of the oldest learned societies, founded in 1710. The museum in Broad Street, Spalding, is now closed for building work, but a presence is maintained at Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding, 10.30am to 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday.
The society’s book sales are held every first and third Saturday of each month from 10am to noon in Broad Street, Spalding, next to the museum and opposite the methodist church. Society Christmas cards are also available. Funds raised help with preservation of the museum collection.
