Lot Archive

Lot

№ 608

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19 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£55

Clubs and Societies, Co Dublin, Dublin, Zoological Society of Ireland, white metal, 1844, by W. Woodhouse, conjoined busts of Linnæus and Cuvier left, rev. giraffe, 30mm, 9.56g/12h (D & W 56/94; E 1385; Noble II, 768; cf. DNW 68, 1200). Some scratches, otherwise about very fine £30-40

Provenance: D.C. Pottinger Collection [from M. Eden July 1990]