Oak leaf Devon bowls with acorn spoon, pewter gifts handmade by Glover and Smith

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The Oak tree symbolises hospitality,
stability, strength, honour, eternity, endurance and liberty.

Mighty, strong, enduring and steadfast, old
oaks were venerated and used by the druids
and later by the kings and the Church.

The Oak tree represents the very essence of
England, the power of the sovereign and his
or her ancient spiritual link to the land.


“The creation of a thousand
forests is in one acorn”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the oak is felled the
whole forest echoes with its
fall, but a hundred acorns are
sown in silence by an
unnoticed breeze”
- Thomas Carlyle


“Faith sees a beautiful blossom
in a bulb, a lovely garden
in a seed, and a giant
oak in an acorn.”
 - William Arthur Ward