Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside : Treasure and Ghosts in the London Clay, Victoria Shepherd

Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside : Treasure and Ghosts in the London Clay, Victoria ShepherdNew Hardback A thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade. June 1912. A pair of workmen deposit a heavy ball of clay in the antiques shop of George Fabian Lawrence, or Stony Jack as he's better known. As Lawrence picks through the mud, a speck of gold catches his eye. A pearl earring tumbles into his hand, then another. A Burmese ruby follows; then Colombian emeralds, lapis lazuli

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They produced a vast corpus of work on mythology and medieval literature

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this candid and personal collection of essays is astonishingly far-reaching and riotously funny

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All of the macabre stories and extracts from longer works have hints of the supernatural and many include malevolent spirits and grotesque murders