Ostrich egg
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Egg
Measurements
150 mm (Length)130 mm (W)
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303879
Summary
One of three ostrich eggs in a mahogany tray lined with green baize. The eggs incribed in pen 'SUDAN LIBYAN DESERT 229I'. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Marks and inscriptions
SUDAN LIBYAN DESERT 229I (eggs inscribed in pen)