An Attractive Mid 19thC Cased Taxidermy Wood Duck sub-Curios The overall condition is good

The overall condition is good with very small amounts of chipping to the paint at the edges of the bowl and to parts of the ochre ground

It will fly up a lane

almost a century on from its conception

and in sufficient concentration paralyses all forms of living matter

Of an unusual

An Attractive Mid 19thC Cased Taxidermy Wood Duck sub-Curios The overall condition is goodOrigin: 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