Feather collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
paper & feather
Measurements
90 x 330 mm
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290049
Summary
Cardboard box containing a collection of birds feathers. A mixture of brown and white and accompanied by a note which reads;- 'V H Crewe ..... Jan 24th 1907. All that remained of the blackbird with white feathers each side of its tail found G. Pegg the day after I knocked it down the finder ....' The lid of the box has a picture of a Georgian lady playing a piano. The words 'Prices. Gold medal Palmitine Candles, self fitting'.
Marks and inscriptions
PRICES/GOLD MEDAL/PALMITINE CANDLES/SELF FITTING (printed on box lid)