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Dorman Museum

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Middlesbrough , North Yorkshire , TS5 6LA

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Stepping Stone

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Erimus Sign

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Roman Coffin

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Leo the Lion

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Boris the Russian Bear

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Jenny Lind Ship Model

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Boat Shaped Cradle

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Sundial

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Neolithic Canoe

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Font

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ISTC Banner

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Sydney Harbour Bridge Trowel

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Transporter Bridge Model

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Nelson’s Pet Raven

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Curlew

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Hoopoe

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Dinosaur Egg

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Levantine Shearwater

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Guillemot Eggs & Climmers

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Plaque from First House

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Winterschladen Cockerel

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Rev. Isaac Benson Inkwell

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Portrait of Smailes-Calvert

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Acklam Plan

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Portrait of Joseph Pease

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Isaac Wilson

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Erimus Banner

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Triptych

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Ancient Egyptian Funeral Boat

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Silver Chain and Maltese Cross

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Grevy’s Zebra

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Frog Dish

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Funerary Relief

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Linthorpe Pottery Vessel

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Linthorpe Pottery Jardiniere

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Medusa Vase

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Charles Peace Ashtray

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Wedgwood Stingray Vase

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Benham and Froud Tea Set

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Clutha Glass Vase

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Crow’s Foot Decanter

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Ichthyosaur Skull

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Meteorite Model

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Spar Arch

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Dinosaur Footprints

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Stepping Stone

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This is a glacial boulder of limestone that was found in the River Tees at Newport and was reputed to be one of the stepping stones by which the river could be crossed on foot.
It is unlikely that this boulder was a stepping stone as even in the 13th century boats were used to carry produce across the river. It was the Tees Conservancy Commissioners who dredged the boulder from the River Tees in 1869 in their efforts to make it easier for larger boats to sail up river. One member of the TCC, William Fallows, rescued the boulder and had it placed in Albert Park.

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Erimus Sign

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This stone Erimus crest carving is from Dacre Street police station in St. Hilda’s. It was removed and preserved when the building was demolished.
  • Building: Dacre Police Station
  • Location: St Hilda's, Middlebsrough
  • Constructed: 1905
  • Demolished: ????
Dacre Police Station was first opened in 1905 by Elizabeth Anne Routledge, who three years previously had become Middlesbrough’s first Police Matron (a forerunner position of the Women Police Constable WPC).

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Roman Coffin

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This stone coffin or sarcophagus was discovered in an ironstone quarry in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire by the Cargo Fleet Iron Co Ltd. It came from the cemetery of the Roman town of Irchester.
This stone coffin was carved from limestone with a rough sloping slab for a lid. Hundreds of graves were discovered in the ironstone quarry at Wellingborough but only a handful of stone coffins. This sarcophagus must have belonged to an important person in the community.

The ironstone quarry where it was discovered was owned by a Middlesbrough firm, the Cargo Fleet Iron Company Limited.

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Leo the Lion

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Leo is a Somali lion and Dorman Museum’s mascot. He was shot and killed by Sir Alfred Edward Pease in the early 1900s and was donated to the Museum along with other animals Pease shot during Big Game Hunting.
Alfred Edward Pease was a member of the Darlington Quaker family, founders of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company. After a political career in Cleveland, he moved to South Africa to become a magistrate and then onto north-eastern Africa where he hosted game hunting trips in the 1900s. It was around this time he shot and killed the lion that became Leo.

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Boris the Russian Bear

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Boris is a Russian Brown Bear who was shot by Mr Evelyn Hubbard in 1881. He was donated in the 1930s by Mr Hubbard’s son, Reverend Harold Evelyn Hubbard of St. John the Evangelist Church in Middlesbrough.
Evelyn Hubbard, born in 1852, was educated in Oxford before being sent to Russia to work in the family business in the 1870s. During this time he shot the brown bear, had him stuffed and brought it back to England with him.

Boris was given to Evelyn Hubbard’s son, Harold, who was the vicar of St. John the Evangelist Church in Middlesbrough.

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Jenny Lind Ship Model

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This is a model of a 327 ton barque ship, the Jenny Lind, which was built in Stockton at the shipyards of Westgarth and Partners in 1847.
Barques were wooden three masted ships used to transport cargo. The Jenny Lind sailed between 1847 and 1870 on various routes between Limerick and Liverpool, and even to America.

Jenny Lind was a Swedish opera singer, known as the Swedish Nightingale. A very popular and talented singer she had made her London debut performance in 1847. In that year alone 5 other ships were made bearing her name.

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Boat Shaped Cradle

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Wooden cradle made in the shape of a boat on a stand, with Lilian painted on the side, built in 1882.
This cradle was made in the style of a Clinker built boat by John James Harvey, a Middlesbrough boat builder of 'Tees Commissionaires' on Graving Dock in 1882 for his first born son, James William Harvey.

To test its seaworthiness the cradle was pulled across the Tees to demonstrate it could also function as a very small boat!

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Sundial

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Wooden model of the stone sundial in Albert Park. It is decorated with eight quotations in four different languages and images of the solar system with the twelve signs of the Zodiac in an oval border.
This wooden prototype for the sundial was the initial design of John Smith of Stockton who used it as a pattern for the stone sundial he went on to create and install in Albert Park in 1878.

Within the central square is a circle containing three dials aligned to show, when the shadow of the sun passes across, the time in New York, Melbourne Australia and Albert Park at the same moment.

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Neolithic Canoe

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This Neolithic canoe was found on the banks of the River Tees opposite Thornaby High Wood. It was under 8 feet of water, deep in the mud and sand, which had helped preserve it.
The canoe is approximately 3,000 years old and was made from a single oak trunk, showing a high level of workmanship, and there are still traces of the fire which helped to hollow it out. A flint arrowhead has also been found in the area as well as a stone axe, evidence that people lived in Thornaby around the River Tees at this time.

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According to legend this is the font from an ancient church dedicated by St. Cuthbert in honour of St. Hilda, the abbess and founder of Whitby Abbey, which stood near the River Tees in the then tiny hamlet of Middlesbrough from 686 until the 1500s.
his font from the church, St. Hilda at Midlesburg, was discovered by Joseph Pease being used as a water trough for cattle on the Middlesbrough farm. When the land was purchased to make the new industrial town of Middlesbrough Pease moved the font to his home, Southend in Darlington. When Joseph Pease died in 1889 the font was gifted to the new church of St. Hilda in Middlesbrough.

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ISTC Banner

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This banner was commissioned by the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC) No.2 Division for the North East. It is made of silk and is decorated with ten watercolour paintings by Herbert J Finn depicting different processes of iron and steel making.
The ISTC was the largest trade union in the steel industry in the UK. It was formed by the merger of several other unions in 1917 when the Trade Unions’ Amalgamation Act was passed. The making of iron and steel was the life blood of Middlesbrough from the mid-19th century. As a result the ISTC thrived here, representing generations of steel makers, and all associated industrial crafts.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge Trowel

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This trowel was presented to Sir Arthur Dorman, Chairman and co-founder of the Dorman, Long Company Limited, on the official setting of the foundation stone of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia, on March 26th, 1925.
The 52,800 tonnes of steel used to construct the Sydney Harbour Bridge was made in the factories of Dorman Long in Middlesbrough, then shipped to Australia. This incredible feat of engineering was the most famous bridge built by Dorman Long.

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Transporter Bridge Model

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This is a model of the Transporter Bridge which sits across the River Tees, connecting Middlesbrough on the south bank to Stockton-on-Tees on the north bank.
Designed to replace the passenger ferries while not stopping river traffic from passing underneath, the transporter bridge was built by Sir William Arrol & Co of Glasgow, at a cost of £68,026, that’s over 7 million pounds in today’s money! It took 90 seconds to travel from bank to bank using a suspended ‘car’ or ‘gondola’ that could hold up to 200 people or 9 cars.

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Nelson’s Pet Raven

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Thomas Hudson Nelson was a British Ornithologist, born in Bishop Auckland in 1856. From an early age he grew an interest in birds, particularly those native to Yorkshire.
Nelson’s observations indicate how intelligent and interestingly how playful ravens can be. Recent scientific studies have been carried out to find out more about the behaviour of ravens.

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Curlew

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This curlew was sadly killed during a storm which struck Redcar and Middlesbrough in 1914. Both the Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough and the Cleveland Standard reported on the damage caused by the storm.
Thomas Hudson Nelson (1856–1916) was a local ornithologist who found and collected the curlew and had it stuffed and mounted. In the same year Nelson donated his extensive collection of birds and eggs to Dorman Museum.

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Hoopoe

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Hoopoes are a species of bird with pinkish-orange feathers, black and white striped wings, a long thin bill, and a crest of feathers on its head.
Hoop usually live in Africa, Asia and Southern Europe like Spain, and only travel further north to breed. Sometimes on the breeding journey hoopoes get blown off course and find their way to the south of England. As a result it can be rare to see these birds in the Tees Valley or Yorkshire.

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Dinosaur Egg

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The only egg in this gallery that is not from a bird is this fossilised dinosaur egg. It was found in the Henan Province of China, and it dates back to the Late Cretaceous period.
Around 80 million years ago this egg was laid by a dinosaur called Hadrosaurus. The name Hadrosaurus means ‘sturdy lizard’, and they were herbivores that could grow up to 9 metres long. They had beaks that were duck-bill shaped and made from keratin which they used to strip leaves from plants.

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Levantine Shearwater

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Known today as Yelkouan Shearwater, these birds were a highlight of the Museum’s 1919 Guidebook. They had both been sighted in Yorkshire in 1877, and this had been the earliest recorded sighting of the species in the area.
These birds were mounted and cased in the same year, and were a part of Thomas Hudson Nelson’s collection of taxidermy until his death in 1916.
In 1918 his vast collection of 435 birds and over 3,000 eggs was donated by his wife Frances Shaw

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Guillemot Eggs & Climmers

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Climming was the practice of collecting seabird eggs from coastal cliffs, with the people who did this called climmers
Demand for these eggs increased during the Second World War and guillemot eggs reportedly sold for 4 shillings a dozen, just over £7 in today’s money. As a consequence the population of guillemots in England declined rapidly. Climming was outlawed in 1954.

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Plaque from First House

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Outside the pawnbroker’s shop is a stone commemorative slab, salvaged from No. 26 West Street, St. Hilda’s, the first house to be built in the modern town of Middlesbrough in 1830.
The house had been built by Mr George Chapman, a joiner who had come from Embleton in Durham to live in the new town. His son, John Richard Chapman, was born shortly afterwards on 22nd August 1830, and he was the first child to be born in Middlesbrough. The house was demolished in 1959.

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Winterschladen Cockerel

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This is a model of a cockerel made from plaster and wood. It was placed above the entrance to Winterschladen’s off-licence on Waterloo Road, Middlesbrough. The cockerel was not always gold but over time had been painted green, orange, brown and red.
Winterschladens was a family business dating back to the early years of Middlesbrough. Heinrich Joseph Balthasar Hubert Winterschladen, born in 1842 in Cologne, Germany, was sent as a journalist aged 21 to report on the rapid growth of Middlesbrough. Like many who had been drawn there he saw an opportunity. Joseph set up a wine-importing business at a store next to Middlesbrough Railway Station.

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Rev. Isaac Benson Inkwell

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This is a ceramic inkwell awarded by Reverend Isaac Benson to W. T. Barningham when he left his school at Linthorpe in 1845.
Reverend Isaac Benson was born in 1795 in Windermere. He came to Middlesbrough around 1823 when he was appointed to be the Vicar of Acklam and the village schoolmaster. He then became responsible for St. Hilda’s Parish and a school at Linthorpe, where he made it a personal tradition to award a ceramic inkwell to all his pupils who completed their education at his school.

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Portrait of Smailes-Calvert

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John Smailes-Calvert was born at Staithes but moved to Middlesbrough as a child. He worked as a teacher and later became Director of Education in the town. He was also a talented amateur artist and he painted many landscape and architectural views.
  • Occupation: Teacher & Artist
  • Birthplace: Staithes
  • Born: 1836
  • Died: 1926
  • Organisation: The Cleveland Sketching Club
His artistic passion led to him becoming a founding member of the area's first art organisation in 1884 - The Cleveland Sketching Club.

The Club’s aim at its founding was “to cultivate the art of drawing, painting, sculpture and kindred arts and to encourage general art study in Middlesbrough.

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Acklam Plan

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Painted in oils on canvas, this large plan was created in 1716 showing the whole estate of Sir William Hustler (d.1651), which had been accurately assessed and surveyed.
Sir William Hustler, a cloth merchant from Bridlington, rented Acklam Hall from the Boynton family in 1637, using the River Tees to transport his business goods. He later bought the hall and in the 1680’s his grandson, William Hustler, completely re-designed the building in the fashionable Dutch style. Acklam Hall was lived in by members of the Hustler family until 1928.

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Portrait of Joseph Pease

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This large portrait of Joseph Pease, ‘the father of Middlesbrough’, was presented to the town in 1881 as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Middlesbrough. It hung for many years in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall.
  • Occupation: businessman & Politician
  • Birthplace: Darlington
  • Born: 1799
  • Died: 1872
  • Organisation: The Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate
Joseph Pease (1799-1872) was the son of Edward Pease, the man behind the Stockton and Darlington Railway. In 1829, he was the lead partner in the Middlesbrough Estate, buying 500 acres of empty land, which was developed into the new town, the plans of which are on the table.

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Isaac Wilson

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This is a painting of Sir Isaac Wilson, one of Middlesbrough’s most well-known politicians and industrialists.
  • Occupation: Industrialist & Politician
  • Birthplace: Kendal
  • Born: 1822
  • Died: 1899
  • Organisation: Middlesbrough Pottery
He was born in 1822 in Kendal, Westmorland and moved to Middlesbrough in 1841. He founded the Middlesbrough Pottery on Commercial Street alongside Joseph Pease. The Pease Family were also important figures in the area, since they were also the founders of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

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Erimus Banner

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This banner depicts the coat of arms for Middlesbrough and the town’s motto 'Erimus'.
The three ships featured represent the town’s ship-building and maritime trade. The blue lion is from the shield of the de Brus family which was given many lordships in this area following the Norman Conquest in 1066. The de Brus family motto was 'Fuimus', meaning 'we have been'. In the spirit of growth and progress, Middlesbrough chose 'Erimus', meaning 'we shall be'.

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Triptych

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This Triptych is a copy recreated by the Victorians. The original was painted in 1479 by Hans Memling. It came from the former St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Sussex Street, St. Hilda’s, Middlesbrough where it hung above the altar.
The Triptych is made up of five paintings on three tin panels mounted in a hinged wooden frame. From left to right these panels depict scenes from the bible including the Nativity or birth of Jesus, the Adoration of the Three Kings and the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. There are two further paintings of St. John the Baptist and St. Veronica on the reverse.

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Ancient Egyptian Funeral Boat

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This Ancient Egyptian Soul Boat is 4,500 years old. Boats like these were placed in tombs as it was believed they were needed to sail the person’s soul into the afterlife.
Boats were an incredibly important part of Ancient Egyptian life, taking goods and people up and down the River Nile. For this reason it was believed that the god Aken would carry the souls of the dead to the underworld on board his boat ‘Meseket’. Many people placed small scale boats like this one in their tombs as a symbol of that afterlife boat journey.

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Silver Chain and Maltese Cross

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This beautiful silver chain with a Maltese cross pendant was either worn on the chest or as a belt ornament. It was possibly made by members of the Mapuche tribe, the indigenous people living in the border lands between Chile and Argentina.
The Spanish, who invaded South America from 1492, brought the skill of silversmithing and Christianity to the region. Both of these were picked up by generations of indigenous South Americans.

The Maltese Cross, a traditional Christian symbol became a popular motif in the jewellery made by the Mapuche peoples. The Mapuche were so skilled that they became famous for their exquisite work.

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Grevy’s Zebra

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Grevy’s Zebra is the largest of the zebra species and this one is from Somaliland in East Africa. It was hunted by Alfred Edward Pease, a member of the Darlington Quaker family, who donated it to the museum in 1904.
The name ‘Grevy’s Zebra’ comes from a royal gift given in 1882 from the emperor of Abyssinia, modern day Ethiopia. He thought his local Zebras were regal creatures so sent one to the President of France, Jules Grevy, as a mark of respect. A French zoologist realised that this type of Zebra was unknown in Europe so named it after his president.

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Frog Dish

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Wooden dish in the shape of a frog with 'lucky stones from the head of a catfish' inlaid around the rim. A tourist piece representing a traditional feast dish, made by the Tlingit people of Sitka on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America.
Tlingit society is divided into numerous clans which have heraldic crests featuring an emblematic animal. These are displayed on totem poles, canoes, feast dishes, house posts, weavings, jewelery, and other art forms. In Native American cultures frogs are associated with healing, good luck, abundance, sharing of ancient wisdom, knowledge, freshwater, rain, renewal, and growth.

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Funerary Relief

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This ancient Roman funerary relief was made over 2,000 years ago. It would have been placed over the entrance or decorated the outside of a tomb.
This relief is made from marble and is only a small section of its original size. It is believed to depict the story of Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Leda and the god Zeus and the brothers of Helen of Troy. Pollux was a formidable boxer, and Castor was a great horseman. Together they were known as the Heavenly Twins and are associated with the constellation Gemini.

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Linthorpe Pottery Vessel

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This Linthorpe Pottery vessel was designed by Christopher Dresser using his love of other cultures to create a unique piece of pottery. It was donated to the museum by Councillor Richard Archibald, a prolific businessman in Middlesbrough.
Often described as a Peruvian style jug this vessel was actually inspired by the shape of a Greco-Etruscan oil lamp feeder. William Cudworth, a keen private collector of antiquities, displayed his prized terra-cotta lamps from the Classical World at the Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures in 1875.

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Linthorpe Pottery Jardiniere

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This large ornamental jardinière or plant pot, shape number 2253, was made by the Linthorpe Art Pottery in 1889 and is one of a pair. It has two spiralling scroll handles and decoration inspired by ancient Egyptian motifs.
This jardinière is of the same design as the pair with matching stands that were presented to the Prince and Princess of Wales, when they came to Middlesbrough to open the new Town Hall in 1889, by the Mayor, Thomas Sanderson. This plant pot bears the decorator’s mark of Florence Minto, one of the female artists who worked at the pottery.

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Medusa Vase

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This vase was made by the Linthorpe Pottery works in Middlesbrough.

It takes inspiration from the Greek myth of Medusa, a woman with poisonous snakes for hair who could turn you into stone with just one look.
This vase was designed to be a crowd showstopper for the Calcutta International Exhibition in India in 1883 to showcase the highly skilled employees of the Linthorpe Pottery works. As the handle has a wooden replacement it is assumed that this vase was a failed early attempt. The successfully completed serpent vase was shipped to Calcutta and won a bronze medal at the exhibition.

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Charles Peace Ashtray

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Linthorpe Pottery dish or ashtray, design number 293, in the shape of a man. The pottery artists claimed that the head was a representation of Charles Peace, an infamous burglar and murderer hanged at Leeds in 1879.
Christopher Dresser based the shape of this dish on a priest's ritual drinking vessel of carved wood from the Polynesian island of Fiji, which he had seen in the British Museum. The head design, however, is copied from a Japanese figure of the monk poet Saigyo contemplating Mount Fuji. This figure was in the collection of A.W. Franks who was known to Dresser.

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Wedgwood Stingray Vase

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This unglazed terracotta vase was made by Wedgwood around 1867. It is in the shape of a fish with the mouth, eye, tail and fins highlighted in gilt and decorated with an enamelled sting-ray design.
The Staffordshire pottery firm of Wedgwood was one of the first ceramic companies that Christopher Dresser designed for. This vase shape appears in the Wedgwood design books from 1866 and there is also a drawing of the sting-ray motif. This is a rare example of a Wedgwood fish vase but Dresser provided the same shape for the Linthorpe Art Pottery, design number 718, with the stingray motif etched.

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Benham and Froud Tea Set

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This Christopher Dresser designed three piece copper and brass tea set was made by the London firm of Benham and Froud in 1886.
Dresser had been designing artistic metalware for Benham and Froud since the late 1860s but it wasn’t until 1884 that the firm patented a process for combining different metals. Dresser had long admired the colour harmony that Japanese craftsmen were able to achieve by combining and arranging metals in their wares.

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Clutha Glass Vase

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This Dresser designed glass vase was made by James Couper and Sons of Glasgow in the mid-1890s. It is from the Clutha range. 'Clutha' is the ancient Roman name for a river god and the River Clyde.
Dresser was as interested in the colour effects that could be produced in glass as he was in experimenting with glazes on ceramics. His designs for James Couper were influenced by the colours of Roman and Middle Eastern glass. The bubbled, Roman-style 'Clutha' range of glassware was sold exclusively by Liberty's in London, and there is an etched Liberty lotus trademark on the base of this vase.

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Crow’s Foot Decanter

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This Christopher Dresser designed glass claret jug with silver plated mounts was made by the Birmingham company of Hukin and Heath and is marked with the date January 27th 1879. This design is known as the 'Crows Foot' decanter.
The ‘Crows Foot’ decanter is one of Dresser’s most famous designs, beautiful but also very practical. It was easy to pour and easy to fill. Claret, a red wine from the Bordeaux region of France, was traditionally served at the table in a glass jug or decanter. The plain glass of Dresser’s design allowed the colour qualities of the wine to be seen.

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Ichthyosaur Skull

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This giant fossilised skull is from an Ichthyosaur, a giant marine reptile which lived around 150 million years ago in the Jurassic Period.
It was discovered at Carlin How Ironstone mine in North Yorkshire and was donated to the Museum in 1905 by Sir Thomas Hugh Bell, the chairman and managing director of Bell Brothers ironworks.

Fossils of ichthyosaurs continue to be found along the North Yorkshire coastline

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Meteorite Model

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This is a replica of a meteorite that fell to Middlesbrough on 14th March 1881.
On the day that it happened three men working beside a railway line heard a rushing sound overhead followed by a thud nearby. After exploring the area the workers found a hole in the embankment and they retrieved an unusual rock from it. The meteorite was later donated to the Yorkshire Museum.

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Spar Arch

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This is a spar arch, a collection of minerals put together in a form of folk art. They were made by miners to supplement their income during times of financial hardship.
The word Spar comes from fluorspar, a mineral more commonly known as Fluorite. These precious minerals were found by miners in parts of County Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland.
This ‘Spa Arch’ was built as an exhibition piece by a miner from Nenthead in Cumbria, probably in the early years of the twentieth century.

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This is a plaster cast of a rock surface from North Yorkshire with footprints made from a prehistoric creature, most likely an amphibious tetrapod – it can live in water and on land and has four feet and legs.
The prehistoric footprints were discovered in a rock surface by a climber named Tony Marr. He made the cast and gifted it to the Museum for display. While it is not possible to find out exactly what creature left these prints, it is believed that they were left by a tetrapod, a four-legged animal. This is based on similar prints left by the same animals found in Nova Scotia, east Canada.

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