Shell collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Shell
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1300355
Summary
A group of three shells, one resembles a Snipe's Bill (Haustellum haustellum) and the other two are types of worm snail shells, possibly slit worm snail, ( the latter are found between North Carolina and Northern Brazil). 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).