Shoehorn

Shoehorn engraved and inscribed by Robert Mindun in 1593 depicting a figure in Elizabethan costume, perhaps Jane Ayers the lady named in the inscription. Mindun is the earliest recorded English engraver of horn.

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Of particular significance in the collection are the relics of the ancient guilds of Salisbury.