Egg tray
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Egg
Measurements
660 mm (Length)290 mm (W)71 mm (H)
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303884
Summary
An egg tray. A fifty compartment egg tray containing 50 eggs (some broken). Red Grouse x 1, Tawny Owl x 1, Redshank x 1, Coot x 1, Pigeon x 1, Common Buzzard x 1, Rook x 1, Ring Dove x 2, Crested Grebe x 1, Black Headed Gull x 3, Great Crested Grebe x 2, Sparrowhawk x 1, Jackdaw x 2, Snipe x 1, Song Thrush x 1, Ring Dove x 1, Blackbird x 1, Moorhen x 1, Starling x 1 , Rail x 1, Tufted Owl x 1, Coot x 1, Corncrake x 1, Missel (sic) Thrush x 1, 1 unidentified, Common Sandpiper x 1, Greenfinch x 1 (broken), Blackcap Warbler x 1, Common Gull x 1, Kittiwake x 1, Red Grouse x 2, Sandwich Tern x 3, Kestrel x 2 (one broken), Mallard x 1, Yellow Wagtail x 1, House Sparrow x 1, Chaffinch x 1, Wren x 1 (broken) , Common Linnet x 1 (broken), tree Pipit x 1, Ringed Plover x 1. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.