More dessert trenchers, yay!

[ppfuf]

Two "new" groups of trenchers have shown up on Google this month.
1) The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a lovely set in the red line style, similar to sets in the Manchester City Gallery and the Royal Ontario Museum.
2) An SCA person with a flickr page has pictures of a set in a Scottish museum. It's also a red line set, and similar enough to trenchers in the Ashmolean to make me wonder if they are a separated set. There's seven visible in the flickr pictures, and five of what might be the same set in Oxford. Sadly, the National Museum of Scotland does not have the trenchers in their on-line database, so now I'll be searching through every museum in the Edinburgh area. If anybody knows who posts to flickr as the  O'conmans, let me know.

Comments

[metageek.livejournal.com]

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a lovely set in the red line style,

But the MFA is on the Green Line!

Scottish Set

[elizabethankat.livejournal.com]

The Scottish pictures of the trenchers are by me. I was getting ready for The Big Feast (an Elizabethan Feast) and so I took pictures of everything that was 16th century and related to food. Hence the million pictures of the Hampton Court kitchens. The trenchers were at the National Museum of Scotland.

Re: Scottish Set

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Thanks! They are great pictures. The NMScotland website refuses to admit they have any trenchers, so thank you very much for the confirmation.
If I ever get the trencher website up, I'll be back to ask you for permissions to post.

Re: Scottish Set

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Heloo again! Sombody else in the SCA is making dessert trenchers too! Have you seen this page? http://web.mac.com/megatrope/Personal/Trenchers.html