Love Tokens: A World War 1 Romance Mystery | Curator's Corner S1 Ep3

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Ben Alsop, Curator of the Citi Money Gallery, found a love note inscribed on the back of a coin in the British Museum. The inscription was simple: ‘From Fred to Nellie, France 1916’. There was no additional information to identify who this couple might be.
This is the tale of how Ben used a blog post to hunt down Fred and Nellie and uncover a 100-year-old love story.
Ben's original blog post: goo.gl/epZiIX
Ben's follow up blog post: goo.gl/LhDnPB
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@humanearthling1484 4 года назад

Ben, I love your jokes and your sly little post-joke smiles. Thank you

@EmmeChatterton 7 лет назад

Fantastic lecture, finding a story like that is like the Holy Grail for a researcher! This series is so fantastic, please produce more.

@plainnpretty Год назад

I agree more please

@quique7764 3 года назад

criminally underrated channel.

@Trindal 6 лет назад

I want to thank you all for doing things like this. I love all types of museums and really wish that I had more opportunities to go when I was a kid. Now I’m pretty restricted in my mobility. My dreams of being a historian are well past. Although I will say that seeing all the little nooks in the bookcase behind him are really really peaking my curiosity. Is there field of study to become a curator of curious cubbyholes, nooks and other sorts of crawl spaces and secret openings found in museums... and other places, that hold our past?

@luissuareznuez2214 3 года назад

Beautiful and fascinating story indeed Ben, thank you for sharing it! ”... I thought he was more interested in gold...” that was a good one!😄

@DerekPerlurrl 7 лет назад

I would like to be a paperweight too

@perrydowd9285 5 лет назад

You are silver Always believe in your- Oh Shit (scratch scratch) You are gold Always believe in your soul Yeah that works.

@iffysignal8784 8 лет назад

so much more personal than just another standard coin.. Ive found a couple of the bent into an S shape type love tokens, (William 3rd sixpences) A relatively common find for a metal detectorist, I wish I could tell who, when and why it was given!

@electrictwilight 8 лет назад

This series is so great.

@knessy 9 месяцев назад

This is fantastic! I just found a victorian love token made from a 1872 us half dime. It had to have it. I love the idea that a dime was turned into something that someone would have held dear. I know nothing of the history of the person who once owned this token but thats part of the beauty.

@chris92S 7 лет назад

Why don't you guys have more subscriptions! Museums are incredible!

@britishmuseum 7 лет назад

+Christos Stravoravdis spread the word. We're trying! Thanks for the support!

@chris92S 7 лет назад

The British Museum I know it's no big deal but I'm kind of nerding out a bit that the British Museum replied to my comment :D

@sean659 2 года назад

@@britishmuseum Return stolen artifacts theives.

@sean659 2 года назад

@@chris92S You should be shame of yourselves.

@jovanweismiller7114 5 лет назад

My God, Man! Nellie died in 1966. Did Fred come back from France?

@humanearthling1484 4 года назад

He did!

@alanjones3776 3 года назад

60 years later, i still love the British museum.

@TheGLpanda 8 лет назад

Lovely video, keep them coming!

@inessamaria2428 5 лет назад

It is very interesting to know the history of the objetcs, what paths they walked through until they arrive at the museum.

@brumbybailey6599 4 года назад

Very engaging curator!

@Palifiox 7 лет назад

British army enrollment lists, maybe held by the Imperial war Museum.

@51WCDodge 5 лет назад

Most Great War records were destroyed in the Blitz of WW2. About a third survive. Details from the photo can lead to unit records.

@NeonsStyleHD 8 лет назад

Love this stuff but please, don't include this music in videos. Instead of focusing on the curator, it'distracts me to try to identify it. At first it sounded like an person banging on a xylophone playing the same note over n over. If you're going to add music, always ask yourself will this distract from the speaker.

@kingdavidapple 5 лет назад

Born and living in the States all my life, I do not know what the Latin inscription is around the border of Fred's message - the "motto," if you will, on that side of a shilling coin. Might that have significance for a Doughboy in France just after marrying?

@AndrewMartinIsHere 3 года назад

We’ve all wanted to be a paperweight at some point. It’s a natural phase of growing up.

@jovanweismiller7114 Год назад

My Dad made a bracelet out of silver six penny pieces for my Mum during WWII.

@samabrahams7687 Год назад

The American hobos used to make the hobo nickel out of the buffalo nickel they used to carve and creat pieces for trade lifts or food .

@sherrieludwig508 Год назад

I still want to know if Fred came home, at least the Fred that the granddaughter wrote about.

@Dan-qu8qs 5 лет назад

Would like to hear thoughts on slap coinage why mints never bothered to produce new coins, yes the wars would be one reason but I doubt the only reason.

@DanielOlivierArgyle 5 лет назад

What is quite strange is that Ben is the spitting image of a Nick Allsop (two Ls) I knew (sadly, he died) and his daughter, Clare. It's uncanny. I know that both Nick and his wife had previous marriages and I wonder if there's a relation.

@lynnblack6493 2 года назад

Goo one!

@b.a.erlebacher1139 Год назад

Such a wasted opportunity not to get the background story from the donor back in 1966: information that can never be recovered. There must have been many Fred and Nellies, we'll never know which used this coin, or what their story was.