Shell collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Shell
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1300360
Summary
A collection of nineteen shells with a historic label, Olive Shells (Oliva Gibbosa). 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).