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  • Painted wooden scout trek cart used by the 1st kettering Scout Group © NMAG

    Scout Trek Cart

    Scout Trek Cart used by the 1st Kettering Scout Group for expeditions and camps, possibly since the troop's formation in 1909.

    1909 - 1940 Modern

  • Painted canal stool in castles and roses style by Frank Nurser © NMAG

    Frank Nurser Canal Stool

    Painted stool in Castles and Roses folkart style, used to decorate everyday items used by bargees, people who lived and worked on Northamptonshire's canal network.

    Georgian 1815 Stuart to Georgian

  • Wooden model of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry badge depicting a white horse. © NMAG

    Northamptonshire Yeomanry Horse Model

    Carved and painted wooden model of a white horse, the regimental badge of Northamptonshire Yeomanry since 1794.

    Georgian 1794 Stuart to Georgian

  • Large painted wood and lead boot advertsing Cottons, boot and shoe manufacturers and retailsers in Oundle. © NMAG

    Advertising Boot

    Large advertising boot for Cottons, a family run boot and shoe business located in Oundle from 1877 to the 21st century.

    Victorian 1877 Modern

  • Double-sided oil painting of Sir Christopher Hatton, builder of Holdenby House in late 16th century. © NMAG

    Sir Christopher Hatton

    Oil on wood panel painting of Sir Christopher Hatton, courtier to Queen Elizabeth I.

    Tudor 1581 Medieval to Tudor

  • Wood and woven rush seat designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh © NMAG

    Mackintosh Chair

    This chair is one of four made for Wenman Bassett-Lowke and his house at 78 Derngate, whose decoration was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

    1917 Modern

  • Shoemaker's wood and leather work bench © NMAG

    Shoemaker's Bench

    This shoemaker's bench is evidence of the shoemaking trade before mechanisation aand factory manufacture when solitary shoemakers mostly worked in small workshops in their home.

    Victorian 1860 - 90 Modern

  • Wooden wall clock from Rushden Alfred Street School © NMAG

    School Wall Clock

    Wall clock from Alfred Street School, stopped at 10.12am on the morning of a bombing raid which killed a number of children in the school.

    1940 Modern

  • One of the eight bronze Roman Bowls found at Irchester in 1874. © NMAG

    Irchester Bowls

    A collection of bronze vessels, known as the Irchester bowls, found in 1874 at the site of Irchester Roman town, near Wellingborough.

    Roman 350 - 399 CE Roman and Early Medieval

  • Torah Scroll and red velvet bag. © NMAG

    Torah Scroll

    Torah scroll smuggled out of Austria following the events of the Kristallnacht in 1938. It is now on loan to the Northampton Hebrew Congregation.

    1939 Modern

  • Broken Roman chalk spindle whorl marked with name © NMAG

    Roman Spindle Whorl

    Marked with the name of the Roman woman who used it, spindle whorls were used to spin wool into yarn to make clothes.

    Roman 43 - 410 CE Roman and Early Medieval

  • Wooden box made from differently woods of Jamaican trees and presented in 1838 to William Knibb © NMAG

    William Knibb's Box

    Wooden box presented to William Knibb (1803 - 1845), Baptist minister and abolition campaigner.

    Victorian 1838 Modern