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Cornish Metalwork on Display at the Royal Cornwall Museum

CORNWALL.- A new exhibition has opened at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro which showcases the work of some brilliant Cornish metalworkers. They include craftsmen from Newlyn Copper, Newlyn Silver and Enamel, Hayle Copper, Herbert Dyer of Mousehole, Archibald Carne (also known as “The Smith of Truro”), Francis Cargeeg of Hayle and the Eustace family. Amongst the many intriguing and beautiful objects on display – most of which were created between 1890 and the end of the 1960s – are caskets, inkwells, bellows, platters, dinner gongs, mirrors, jewellery, letter racks and fireside sets, all carefully chosen for their social as well as decorative interest. Chartered landscape architect Colin Pill