January 1, 1970

Peter Shorer, a pioneering archaeologist and the Senior Conservation Officer at the British Museum for over forty years, worked on many remarkable exhibits to restore and stabilize them for exhibition around the world. Due to his incredible skills with moulding and replicating artefacts,he was often asked to make exact reproductions for private and corporate clients. This formed the basisof the company he founded in 1969, Historic Jewellery Reproduction. Following his death in 2010, his son, Mike Shorer, took over the business – and found this plaster plaque of what is likely to have been intended to be a commemorative medal of Churchill. Everything Peter Shorer worked on was painstakingly recorded, except, very oddly, this piece. He was obviously contacted by someone to make a rubber mould of the plaster plaque, from which he made a pure copper electroform.

Historic Jewellery Reproduction are keen to replicate this fascinating piece for sale to interested parties, as either a bronzed resin plaque or in solid bronze, but would first like to establish its background and provenance.

Anyone with any information about the piece is invited to contact Mike Shorer, at Historic Jewellery Reproduction.