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Egypten 11.1 :: Cabinets of curiosity

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This miniature museum was put together by a British soldier, Arthur Vivyan Cornish. After the battle of Gallipoli in 1915, Cornish was posted in Egypt’s western desert, where he collected curiosities from different time periods.

His small museum contains all manner of things:

stone tools, ushebti-figures and amulets, but even quite modern razors and jewellery. To the left is a knife from Sweden, which according to its label is a “Swedish hunting knife with a walrus tusk handle, carried by its owner in the war at Gallipoli, in Egypt and Palestine and used to bandage the wounded”.

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Egypten 11.1 :: Cabinets of curiosity

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