Boojum and Snark on Sandown High Street continue in their great support for The Arts with their Christmas display. Tracy explains more. Ed
Are you crackers about Christmas? Well we are, and to celebrate this Yuletide season Isle of Wight artist, Teresa Grimaldi, has put up a very festive window installation.
Some of you may have already noticed the eye-catching display cascading down our window like a Christmas waterfall.
Hundreds of 1950’s Christmas crackers
Inspired by a story from the Tom Smith Cracker Company, Teresa has reverently taken apart hundreds of 1950’s crackers, sorting and displaying their contents in what can only be described as mini-merry time capsules.
Somewhere among the jokes, plastic whistles and charms is a ring, 10-shilling note and letter.
The ring, the letter and the ten shilling note
Why? Well, in 1927 a gentleman wrote to the Tom Smith Cracker Company enclosing a diamond engagement ring and a 10-shilling note as payment for the ring to be put in a special cracker for his fiancé, unfortunately he did not enclose an address and never contacted the company again; the ring, letter and 10-shilling note are still in their safe today!
This story may require a pinch of salt.
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