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00:00 So I'm delighted to be able to show you today the talisman. This is a plaster talisman that was created at a school called the John Ruskin School in Hazelmere.
00:09 The school had been established by a chap called Godfrey Blunt who arrived in Hazelmere in the 1890s.
00:14 And along with his wife Ethel and his brother-in-law Joseph King and Ethel's sister Maud King, they set up the peasant art movement on what is now known as King's Road.
00:25 So Godfrey went through a little bit of a transformation of his personal interests and ended up setting up the school in the 1920s.
00:32 And we're delighted to get this because this is the only complete talisman in plaster that the museum now owns.
00:39 We don't know much about the talismans but what we do know is that they need more investigation and hopefully we'll be able to do a project soon
00:48 which will look into the background of the school and the paper and plaster talismans and we welcome any public donations to assist with that project.
00:57 Thank you.