I was privileged to be invited to the Hand Engravers Association’s (HEA) Symposium, a 5-day event at master engraver Malcolm Appleby’s workshops in Scotland earlier in June.
This thought occurred as Father’s Day looms in the UK; what a perfect present a medal would make.
The origins of the first ever national public museum lie with physician, naturalist and collector, Sir Hans Sloane who amassed an amazing hoard of some 71,000 objects of note during...