A Good Quality c.1940 Dome Cased Taxidermy Magpie on Ebonised Plinth sub-Curios especially in big households

especially in big households

Even heading into the early nineteenth century

the antlers

The pictures references to vanitas are large and varied and include scrolls with the Turkish chapter

- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

A Good Quality c.1940 Dome Cased Taxidermy Magpie on Ebonised Plinth sub-Curios especially in big householdsOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1930 50 Height: 17. 5 inches (the whole) Height: 14. 5 inches (mount) Base Width: 14 inches The stuffed and mounted magpie perched on a naturalistic rocky outcrop under a good quality Victorian glass dome and raised on an ebonised plinth socle base survives preserved from the early to mid twentieth century. One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy,