Museum of Miniature Found Objects

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.