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Small silvered tin with blue text and logo for Suttons Seeds on hinged lid

Cultivating Objects

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Small silvered tin with blue text and logo for Suttons Seeds on hinged lid
Suttons Seeds order dispatch tin (MERL 2007/28)

The Museum of English Rural Life holds a range of objects and artworks relating to cultivating land for growing crops. From clearance and preparation of the ground, paring the top soil, cultivating, fertilising and manuring, harrowing, rolling, planting, digging, ploughing, seeding, irrigation, protection, singling and weeding. 

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The objects are catalogued on the online database. Search using the word ‘cultivating[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Sutton's Seeds display cabinet
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Joe
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Published Date
May 5, 2017

Suttons Seeds Display Cabinet

Suttons Seeds Display Cabinet – the bottom of the case proudly proclaims ‘Queen’s Seedsman Reading’ displaying different varieties of grasses.

A hand-written object label for a sheep bell from Devon

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