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Director's Choice - Sandylands Drinkwater's Gold Rattle
This week’s Director’s Choice focuses on an individual whose success as a small worker led him to be Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company in 1761 and the making of a considerable fortune. From the premises of the Hand & Coral on Gutter Lane Drinkwater was a wholesale provider of expensive luxury goods such as thimbles, bottle tickets, buttons, clasps, corals and bells to the retailers of London located on the more fashionable and close-by street of Cheapside.
A Coral was a baby’s toy, with bells to rattle, a piece of coral for teething at one end and a whistle to blow at the other end; with an attachment for a ribbon to secure it so that the baby did not drop and lose the toy.
A Coral was a baby’s toy, with bells to rattle, a piece of coral for teething at one end and a whistle to blow at the other end; with an attachment for a ribbon to secure it so that the baby did not drop and lose the toy.
