The Shakespeare Sonnet Bracelet:  "This Sonnet, no 116, is among the most well known, phrases from it having entered the language, often being used in the marriage ceremony. The sonnet has been finely engraved onto a hand finished sterling silver bracelet with unusual properties. The geometric form is known as a Mobius strip, after the German mathematician August Ferdinand Mobius (1790-1868). It represents the seeming paradox of a plane without end, or one of infinite length. As such it became accepted as the symbol for infinity and appropriate and a symbolic form."

Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds, 
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

The Mrs. Delany Pink Mug is decorated with a flower pattern from the collection of Mrs. Delany's drawings. In 1772 Mrs Delany (1700-1788) wrote to her niece 'I have a new way of imitating flowers'. With her wonderful eye for botanical detail, she cut minute pieces of paper to create her famous flower collages, now to be enjoyed by everyone in the British Museum.

The Shakespeare Toy Duck needs no lengthy explanation or history. We are most grateful for the Museum Shop's erudite descriptions and sensibilities. 

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