Curators from the Museum of Miniature Found Objects recently attended the Guild of Custodians' annual conference. They spent a fascinating afternoon at Scotland Yard's Museum of Edible Evidence. On show here is the cake that led Cecil George Galfry to the hangman. The trial at the Old Bailey caused a sensation at the time, with Galfry accused of Herbert Swenge's murder. The cake, baked by Swenge, was found in Galfry's trunk as he tried to flee the country to France, having shot Swenge during an argument at Swenge's bakery late in the evening of 6 April 1908. MMFO curators were also fortunate in being invited to see the leg of pork that was used to bludgeon PC Frederick Arnold to death outside the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus in 1937.

Here is a charming display mounted at the Museum of Miniature Found Objects to mark Saint Valentine's Day. And the museum is delighted to announce the winner of the competition to identify the mystery object currently on display in the foyer. Mr and Mrs Oakshotte of Little Markham, Leicestershire, correctly identified the object as a doll's antimacassar. The happy couple's prize is a candle-lit dinner for two in a secluded corner of the Palm Court Tea Rooms.

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Found objects:
= dark red polka dot cuff: 10.00am, Thursday 5 January 2012, Lordshop Road, north London;
= golden chain: 11.53am, Sunday 8 January 2012, Stoke Newington Church Street, north London;
= green chain: 9.32am, Tuesday 31 January 2012, Woodberry Grove, north London;

= large silver chain: 12.50pm, Saturday 3 December 2011, Fairholt Road, north London;

= miniature hand: 1.21pm, Friday 20 August 2010, Laycock Park, north London;

= plastic rose: 9.32am, Monday 12 December 2011, Highbury Station Road, north London;

= small silver chain: 9.34am, Thursday 16 February 2012, Fairholt Road, north London;
= three interlinked rings: Saturday 15 October 2011, Sterne Street, west London.

This view of the outdoor walking trail in the Norman Shrapnel Memorial Garden at the Museum of Miniature Found Objects was photographed after the recent heavy snowfall. It was taken by Apsara Angakul, a member of the Thai school party enjoying a day trip to the museum.

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Found objects:

= five false fingers: 1.50pm, Thursday 19 January 2012, Highbury Fields, north London;

= metal disk: 4.37pm, Saturday 10 September 2011, Woodberry Grove, north London;

= pink plastic flag: 3.33pm, Friday 25 November 2011, Church Path, north London;

= round mirror: 10.54am, Thursday 17 November, 2011, Westfield Mall, west London;
= yellow and red Lego bricks: 9.24am and 1.02pm, Friday 3 February 2012, Broad Lane, north London.