Egg tray
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Egg
Measurements
610 mm (Length)290 mm (W)70 mm (H)
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303885
Summary
An egg tray. An eight compartment egg tray with twenty-three eggs. Moorhen x 2, Jungle fowl x 2, Mute Swan x 2, Ringed Gull x 4, Lesser Blackbacked Gull x 2, Herring Gull x 2 Farne Islands, Eider Duck x 6 (plus eiderdown) Burray, Orkney 1943-46, Lesser Blackbacked Gull x 4 Foulshaw Moss June 20th 1932. Locations and collecting dates written in pencil on the shells. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.