A dried-up orange from the lunchbox of a miner fatally injured on the day he was due to eat it has gone on display in a Staffordshire museum. The fruit belonged to Joseph Roberts who was injured in an explosion at a Stoke-on-Trent colliery in 1891. It had been kept by his family but has been donated to the Potteries Museum. Spokeswoman Deb Klemperer said it may just be a piece of dried fruit but the story behind it made it an amazing piece for the museum. The pips can be heard rattling when the orange is shaken.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
And I can still hear the pips...the pips
Posted by DFX at 7:30 PM
Labels: death, dried-up oranges, food, fruit, human condition, museum studies, pips
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