Shell collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Shell
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1300346.3
Summary
One of six shells with a historic label marked Mother of Pearl shells. Two are scallop type shells. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958).