Monday, December 29
Coincidence Of 400 Year Old Chalice Being Re-United With It's Lid
Sara Richards has had an interest in antiques for many years and acquired a silver lid some twelve years ago. She wasn't too sure what the lid belonged to: a teapot perhaps or a sugar basin?
Eventually, after much research she discovered that it was in fact a lid to a chalice - a very old one at that, could well be from the 1500s.
Time passed, as it tends to do, and about twelve years after discovering the lid Sara went to evening classes on the subject of archaeology. At the class she met Canon Graham Loveluck a priest on Anglesey in Wales.
The pair got talking and for some reason Sara mentioned the lid she had found and how it could well belong to a 16th Century chalice. Canon Loveluck told her he had such a chalice at his church and this had a missing lid.
Surely they couldn't belong together! Out of interest the lid was taken to the chalice and sure enough, like Cinderella and her slipper, the lid fit.
But that wasn't all, through various markings and designs they discovered that this was the actual, original lid to the chalice. A photo of the two was even discovered in a very old book. How the two parts were ever separated is a mystery but the two are now happily reunited. After existing for over 400 years they belong together.
The photo below shows Sara Richards and Canon Graham Loveluck reuniting the lid with the chalice - or maybe the other way round: the chalice with the lid.
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Incredible story and so glad the two parts were reunited. I bet that chalice is worth a penny or two, especially now it has its lid back.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of that - the chalice must be worth more now though.
DeleteRemarkable synchro! It's one of those stories that underscores the odds.
ReplyDeleteThe odds .. remarkable.
Delete$00 years old! What a story.
ReplyDeleteShould have been 400 - not $00. sorry Mike.
DeleteMoney on your mind? :-)
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