Comments on: IMG_8527 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/img_8527/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:44:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Editor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/04/seventeenth-century-finds-from-shoreditch/img_8527/#comment-483608 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:44:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_8527.jpg#comment-483608 The shape, texture and decoration of this earthenware artifact is similar to the style of 20th c. earthenware of Southern Romania. These were manufactured for and sold at annual fairs in Bucharest in the 1950s and 60s and bought by families to give them as alms on All Saints Days and offered to the poor after funeral services:

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