Two Large 20thC Preserved Starfish Specimens sub-Curios stretcher being too far damaged

stretcher being too far damaged

Brazil and the Netherlands

Width: 15 inches / 13 inches (shield)

He was knighted in 1913

Two Large 20thC Preserved Starfish Specimens sub-Curios stretcher being too far damagedOrigin: Indo PacificPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: The Collection of the late William Owen (1907 1996)Date: c. 1970One: 14 x 15 x 4 hTwo: 15 x 13. 5 x 3. 5 hThe large Starfish specimens (Asteroidea), one having five arms, the other with six, each being particularly large and wonderfully decorative and surviving from the late estate of William Owen (1907 1996) and the middle part of the twentieth century. The reverses to the specimens have some loss as