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Auction archive: Lot number 30

Twelve various fluid-preserved specimens

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$1,106 - US$1,475
Price realised:
£540
ca. US$995
Auction archive: Lot number 30

Twelve various fluid-preserved specimens

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$1,106 - US$1,475
Price realised:
£540
ca. US$995
Beschreibung:

Twelve various fluid-preserved specimens
Twelve various fluid-preserved specimens, a dissected Perca fuviatilis (Perch) perpared by E. Gerrard & Sons, London; a larval lamprey by the same preparers; two Lacerta agilis (sand lizard), dated August 1932, Wareham, Dorset; a Zeus faber (John Dory); an aboretum jar with toothwort, broom-rape and cuscuta; another with two types of sundew; Boletus aurantiporous (fungus); an unidentified tissue slice prepared by Drs Schlüter & Mass, Halle en Salle, Germany; the eggs, larvae, pupae and insects of the Mosca domestica (house fly) by the same preparers; a mass of Ascaris sp. (intestinal roundworm); Onchidium verraculatum (marine mollusc); and two heads of the Pseudechis porphyriacus (black snake), all in glass jars, the largest -- 34.4cm. (13½in.) high , the smallest -- 9.2cm. (3 5/8in.) high (12)

Auction archive: Lot number 30
Auction:
Datum:
12 Jul 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
12 July 2006, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

Twelve various fluid-preserved specimens
Twelve various fluid-preserved specimens, a dissected Perca fuviatilis (Perch) perpared by E. Gerrard & Sons, London; a larval lamprey by the same preparers; two Lacerta agilis (sand lizard), dated August 1932, Wareham, Dorset; a Zeus faber (John Dory); an aboretum jar with toothwort, broom-rape and cuscuta; another with two types of sundew; Boletus aurantiporous (fungus); an unidentified tissue slice prepared by Drs Schlüter & Mass, Halle en Salle, Germany; the eggs, larvae, pupae and insects of the Mosca domestica (house fly) by the same preparers; a mass of Ascaris sp. (intestinal roundworm); Onchidium verraculatum (marine mollusc); and two heads of the Pseudechis porphyriacus (black snake), all in glass jars, the largest -- 34.4cm. (13½in.) high , the smallest -- 9.2cm. (3 5/8in.) high (12)

Auction archive: Lot number 30
Auction:
Datum:
12 Jul 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
12 July 2006, London, South Kensington
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