Clare Gaylard Glass
Lampwork Glass, Jewellery and Wearable Art, created by me: Clare Gaylard in my Suffolk studio.
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Tempest Prognosticator
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Whitby Museum is a quirky and magnificent cabinet of curiosities, but we think this one takes the prize, it is Dr George Merryweather's Tempest Prognosticator. The ordinary medicinal leech reacted strongly to changes in the atmosphere before storms.So one was popped in each bottle and gave alerts of incoming tempest through movements and rattlings of chains and whalebones....
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