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Paperweight

Inlaid paperweights like this may have been made by apprentices who were learning the skills needed to create more complex items....

Badge

This is a royal marines cap badge with a royal crest of England, a crowned golden lion statant standing on an Imperial crown, which was replaced in 1953 by the...

Flageolet

This is a typical Bainbridge single flageolet dating from after 1808. The two keys interlock and were patented by Bainbridge in 1803 and the ivory 'bumps' are spacing studs to...

Thermometer

Thermometers were commonly made from Devon marbles. This example also includes malachite, a bright green stone which was imported....

Inkstand

Decorated with a scrapwork design (perfectly fitting angular shapes), this is typical of items produced by Grant's Marble Manufactory into the early 20th Century....

Picture

This picture was probably made to show off the skills of the marble workers. It is highly realistic and shows much detail making it easily recognizable as Babbacombe Bay....

Platter

This platter was made for Queen Victoria, after the Prince Consort visited Woodley's Marble Works, St Marychurch, Torquay, in 1852. The platter shows the wide array of colours available and...

Inkstand

This is the sort of item commonly made in Devon using the local stones. The polished surface makes it possible to see the fossil corals in some of the inlaid...

Guillotine

A working bone model of a guillotine made by French prisoners of war at Princetown during Napoleonic Wars....

Seal

This seal belonged to Lord Warden of Stannaries an official whose duty used to be exercising judicial and military functions in Cornwall. There is a lion lying in front of...