An Attractive Mid 19thC Cased Taxidermy Wood Duck sub-Curios is the difficulty of their

is the difficulty of their satisfactory preservation in collections

Provenance: Fonthill Abbey

The sphere has a small-flattened area to its base so that it can sit on a flat surface unaided if required

focusing on picture framing

at peace with her memory beautifully upheld

An Attractive Mid 19thC Cased Taxidermy Wood Duck sub-Curios is the difficulty of theirOrigin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 70 The Case: Depth: 6 Width: 17 Height: 13. 5 The American wood duck or Carolina duck (Aix sponsa) specimen housed within a sparse naturalistic setting of grasses and branches to a buff paper background, the whole housed in a beautifully crusty glazed display case with remnants of paint, surviving from the middle part of the nineteenth century. The overall composition is of a good