This is Bateman's, home to poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling, who died on this day in 1936.

Follow the thread to find out how Kipling's fictional magic necklace was made real and still exists at Bateman's today...

Kipling wrote the Just So Stories for children, published in 1902.

One of the stories was How the Alphabet was Made.

According to the story, the first alphabet was created by a little girl and her father in the Stone Age. They then made a magic alphabet necklace so that it could be kept 'for ever and ever'.

Twenty five years after the story was published, Sir Percy Bates commissioned a London jeweller to make a perfect rendition of the necklace from Kipling's drawing.

The necklace was presented as a gift to Kipling at Bateman's in 1928 and here it remains, framed as if it were a true Neolithic artefact.

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