A modern glass boiler tube displaying cassiterite at the var...

Hammer

£350

A modern glass boiler tube displaying cassiterite at the various stages of processing. Culminating in metal. Bearing typed label: 'Wherry Town Mine Tin. Collected from the foreshore following the 2013/2014 winter storms. From coarse crushed to final concentrated then smelted product'. Note: Metal from Wherry Mine is exceptionally rare. Length of tube 35.25cm. This large collection of Cornish tin ingots and mining artefacts is from the collection of Neil Mercer.   Mercer has collaborated with the photographer and designer Peter Russell to produce ‘The Spirit Of Dartmoor Tin’, a large format, lavishly illustrated, limited edition artists publication due late 2022 / early 2023.  Most of these items are featured in, and formed part of the research for the publication which contributes to, and records, the tin working history of Cornwall and Dartmoor and is the culmination of fourteen years of research and practical tin working.  The Spirit Of Dartmoor Tin: a one-time limited edition of 300 copies, sequentially numbered and signed by the authors, within a slipcase, with the copy medieval seal of the Devon Stannary in tin metal smelted during the project from historic and modern tin and inset into the case.  Foreword by the landscape archaeologist Dr Tom Greeves; ' ... this is a book of magic, passion and beauty, captured essentially through stunning visual images. I heartily commend it to everyone, but in particular to those for whom Dartmoor is a special and elemental place, rich in human messages'. For further information about ‘The Spirit Of Dartmoor Tin’ and to order a copy, visit their website http://www.spiritofdartmoortin.com/ or email: [email protected]