Dessert Trenchers on the Internet!

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Victoria Jackson has written a short article on the Fruit Trenchers owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Click the link for Shakespeare’s World in 100 Objects: Number 27, a set of 12 posy trenchers. This set is also described on the Trust's website, and includes all the posies: SBT 1992-4 A set of twelve Elizabethan sycamore table mats.

The SBT set is also very closely related to a set in the Victoria and Albert museum (not that the V&A ever puts them on display), 6895-1860 Roundel box, Set of roundels. "

edited to add: The SBT has a new webpage with a 1/2 picture of the Acorns/"Who, in the life of his soul, does delight [in] his carnal pleasures? He [who] must mortify [his flesh] quite [completely]" trencher. http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/collections/treasures/a-posy-trencher-late-1500s.html

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Got a note today from Victoria saying the SBT has been given a set of 6 trenchers. No details or pictures yet, but maybe soon. :)