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OME people find nothing but
stones or worms when they
dig their gardens but others
seem to have the knack of tum-
ing ‘up all sorts of little treas-
ures.

This week I heard from a
treasure hunter at Patrixbourne,
Miss K. Douglas, who lives at 4
Riverside Cottages. Her garden-
ing er tviences over the last 13
years ,ve- given her every en-
coura.g‘ément to carry on dig-
g'J.n’g. . ‘ ‘ _ .

She has found a_ large assort-
ment of foreign coins (a previ-
3115 occupant was in the Navy),
a. prodigious amount of buttons
[(thed co)ttage1 was talso otnge 2%. , - .. . .
.aun an a vas uian 1 ' o . . . . . ‘ .
31.Qckr3.'and watch ,%.,,,ks, yfor Miss  Douglas, of 4 Riverside Cottages, Patrixbourne, with
which Miss Douglas can give no the button she found in her garden.
explanation. . -

Another find was a “ruby and
dd-amon 1” ring  . “genuine
Woo1worth’s,” commented Miss
Douglas.

But now she has unearthed a
poser . . . an old silver livery
button bearing a crest, which
consists of a. hand. emerging
from a. cloud, the first and
second fingers raised in the style
of the Papal blessing. It is en-
circled by the Latin inscription
“Omne bonum superne.” '

And Miss Douglas, naturally"
enough, wondered to whom the
button might have belonged.

‘I turned‘ to Mr. Roy Lowlett,
at Achievements Ltd., in North-
gate an-terbury, who special-
ises -_ family histories, and he
was able to shed considerable
light on the problem.

The crest belonged: to the
Miller. family, which has a
baron-etcy. But which branch
Mr. Lowlett could not say
exactly, except there were
branches in Berwick-sh-i-re, St.
Petersburg, . Russia, and Leith,
in Tscotlandz f h ‘ '

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Lahlif ’;°e;t§;”§X§}a'§(‘}od?°;?n§e: All good things come from above”—the motto on the
from above.” button.

How the button came to be in
Miss Douglas’ garden remains a
mystery . . . perhaps the liveried
gentleman's coat fell victim to
apparent button-stripping ten-
dencies of the laund-ryl.

Incidentally, can anybody help
with another reader’s garden’
fin . a flask-shaped bottle bear-
ing the name J. Boughton and
the Words “Cock/and Magpie.”

   

 

     

 

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