DECANTER

Description: CUT NECK & CUT FLUTE. CREST ON FRONT OF ARCHER. COMPLETE WITH STOPPER. SMALL CHIP ON TOP OUTSIDE EDGE OF NECK. SEE CONSERVATION REPORT. STARBURST FLORAL PATTERN ON BOTTOM. KNOB OF STOPPER IS CUT LIKE A DIAMOND.

History: UNKNOWN MAKE. DONOR, HAROLD RICHARD TURNER IS GREAT, GREAT GRANDSON OF ALEXANDER GALT. ARCHER IS THE GALT FAMILY CREST. ***UPDATE: 16 OCTOBER 2013: NICOLE HEMBROFF, GALT COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT, MET WITH DICK AND SHIRLEY TURNER AT THE MUSEUM ON 24 MAY 2010. THE COUPLE, FROM LETHBRIDGE, CAME IN TO SEE OBJECTS PREVIOUSLY DONATED BY DICK’S MOTHER MURIEL TURNER. SHE WAS, ACCORDING TO DICK, THE DAUGHTER OF SIR ALEXANDER TILLOCH GALT’S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER ANNIE SMITH (NEE GALT), MAKING MURIEL GALT'S GRANDDAUGHTER. SHIRLEY TURNER, AT THE TIME OF HER 2010 VISIT, RECOGNIZED THE STARBURST DESIGN ON THE BASE OF THE DECANTER. IT REMINDED HER, SHE SAID, OF SOMETHING SHE MIGHT HAVE AT HOME, WHICH SHE INHERITED FROM HER MOTHER IN LAW, MURIEL TURNER. SHE SAID, “THE ARCHER IS PART OF THE GALT FAMILY CREST WHICH IS THE SAME CREST WE HAVE ON OUR GALT SILVERWARE.” MR. DICK TURNER PASSED AWAY IN LETHBRIDGE ON 21 JULY 2010 AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS. FOR MORE INFORMATION, INCLUDING THE DONOR’S LETTERS AND RICHARD “DICK” TURNER’S OBITUARY, PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE. SEE ALSO DONATIONS BY MRS. MURIEL TURNER IN ARCHIVES.