The ungnawn Beaver
Coming up in Galashiels... The Yorkshire Arts and Crafts cabinetmaker Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson hardly needs an introduction. His distinctive adzed oak furniture, each piece relief-carved with a small mouse, proved so successful that a menagerie of imitators sprang up in the 1950s and ’60s.
The identity of some of these craftsmen has been discovered. Tom Whittaker, aka Gnomeman, was appren…