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Richard Cockle Lucas's telescope, Chilworth Tower, dated 1853.
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The Antiquaries' Collection“Antiquarianism, with its focus on numinous, associational objects, is, for all its concern to evoke the living spirit of the past, irretrievably concerned with what is dead.”
—Jane Stevenson, The Antiquarian Instinct
“The antiquary, perhaps because he is in close touch with the human thought of all time - that which is not dead, but sleepeth - comes more into contact with that dim borderline region than most people.”
—M P Dare (1902-1962), archivist, author, and book thief
The antiquaries evoked by the Collection include: Browne Willis (1682-1760), Richard Cockle Lucas (1800-1883), John Henry Hearn (abt 1816-1871), Harold Osborne White (1870-1954), and Arthur Harris Arnold (1871-1948). Selected items:
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