The curator at Haslemere Educational Museum believes that the ornate Hungarian embroidered sheepskin wedding jacket dating from the 1920s and an 18th century wooden Norwegian corner cabinet, may have been stolen to order.
The items were found to be missing on Monday, February 20 and curator Julia Tanner believes they were taken some time between the preceding Wednesday and Saturday.
The museum's peasant art collection, from which they were taken, features rare examples of rural craftsmanship gathered from across Europe before the First World War.
If you have any information about the missing artefacts, please contact Julia Tanner at Haslemere Museum on 01428 642112 or email her at: haslemeremuseum@aol.com
Thief uses key to steal rare peasant artefacts
A THIEF who used a key to get into a display cabinet and avoided being filmed on CCTV has made off with two unusual artefacts from a museum in Surrey.