A leather jug made from the skin of Oliver Cromwell’s horse was recently hailed as the most exciting Antiques Roadshow find in years.
The large tankard was produced for the republican leaders who overthrew the monarchy as a gesture to mark his status as Lord Protector of England in 1853.
From Telegraph.co.uk:
It had been made from the skin of Cromwell’s dead horse Blackjack and inscribed with the words: “Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Wales 1653.”
A few years later the 2ft tall jug was deposited at the family bank C Hoare and Co in London and left there.
It fell into the ownership of the Hoare family and was passed down from generation to generation.
It is now owned by Richard Hoare whose son Paul took it along to the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
Expert John Foster described it as the most exciting find in years and valued it at 30,000 pounds.
“I remember seeing it whenever I went to visit him for Sunday lunch but I was too young to realise the importance of it.”I took it along to an Antiques Roadshow event at Lulworth Castle earlier this year and the researchers and experts got very excited about it,” Paul Hoare, from Bere Regis, Dorset, said.
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