A cabinet of curiosities the collection comprising natural history specimens, ethnographic items and handicrafts including an assortment of corals, three smooth chestnuts, a carved French Colonial carved coconut shell, an Emu egg, Indian glass bangles, a small pietra dure panel of Vesuvius, a carved hardstone turtle, two South American clay Inca whistles, boars teeth, barnacles, dried crabs, fossils, the carapace of a small tortoise, two unusal cast iron desk weights, an ebonised frame set with convex glass medallions reverse painted with insects and animals, silk and velvet applique worked purses, a child's painted model of a Russian sleigh and small carved wood diaorama of a Quebecoise tavern scene etc. etc. (Qty)
A cabinet of curiosities the collection comprising natural history specimens, ethnographic items and handicrafts including an assortment of corals, three smooth chestnuts, a carved French Colonial carved coconut shell, an Emu egg, Indian glass bangles, a small pietra dure panel of Vesuvius, a carved hardstone turtle, two South American clay Inca whistles, boars teeth, barnacles, dried crabs, fossils, the carapace of a small tortoise, two unusal cast iron desk weights, an ebonised frame set with convex glass medallions reverse painted with insects and animals, silk and velvet applique worked purses, a child's painted model of a Russian sleigh and small carved wood diaorama of a Quebecoise tavern scene etc. etc. (Qty)
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