A Sublime Museum Cased Taxidermy Female Teal c.1865-85, by R.Duncan of Newcastle Upon Tyne sub-Curios must surely

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The ebonised and parcel gilt button-back occasional settee of small proportions upholstered in ivory-yellow damask type material having a horseshoe shaped scroll carved and pierced show-back with carved supports and legs on the original brass castors survives from the Aesthetic Period of late nineteenth century England

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A Sublime Museum Cased Taxidermy Female Teal c.1865-85, by R.Duncan of Newcastle Upon Tyne sub-Curios must surelyOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1865 1885 The Case: Depth: 6 Width: 16 Height: 12 The beautifully preserved female teal duck (Anas Crecca) the specimen set upon a typical Duncan wooden block and housed within a beautiful scientific sparse museum case, the pine sides in the original painted black, the whole being beautifully unassuming with ivory paper backing, signed R. Duncan to the top left corner, and lacking