He was appointed by Guildhall Museum to seek out new items for its collection and became Inspector of Excavations for the nascent London Museum in 1911.
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Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt provided the funds for the London Museum to purchase most of the Cheapside Hoard, though a few pieces went to the British Museum and the Guildhall Museum, and one gold and enamel chain was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The work of Edgar Lissel is represented in, amongst others, the following collections: National Gallery of Canada, Federal Collection of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, Victoria & Albert Museum London, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Musa – City of Vienna Collection of Modern Art.
A Storm in Europe: Béla Kádar, Hugó Scheiber and Der Sturm in Berlin (Ben Uri Gallery, The London Museum of Art, 2003), ISBN: 978-0900157028