A Large & Highly Varied Algology Album of Assorted Dried Victorian Seaweeds & Algae Specimens, Compiled Between 1849-1862 sub-Curios until 1914

until 1914

This instrument shouts and squeals a hundred stories

One would more commonly see Anglo-Indian chairs having pierced higher splat backs and upholstered seats rather than solid carved ones as per this example

were stationed at 51 Rathbone Place from 1817-1862 dating this box to that period

A Large & Highly Varied Algology Album of Assorted Dried Victorian Seaweeds & Algae Specimens, Compiled Between 1849-1862 sub-Curios until 1914Origin: English Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Possibly Collected by Anne Lucas Hakewill b. 1805 Date: The Specimens Collected from 1849 1862 Width: 9 inches Height: 12 inches Enclosing one hundred and one individual specimens of seaweed and algae from the British Isles, collected in the middle of the nineteenth century, and bound within a marbled moir and calf leather covered album. The album is accompanied by an extract from Country Life