A Cased Taxidermy Little Auk c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage an 18th Century architect known

an 18th Century architect known for his works at Croft and Powis Castle among others

the brass front plate is attractively pierced with quatrefoil motifs with five turned bands of oak under

or maybe these were the sculptors own teeth

especially to the areas one would expect

A Cased Taxidermy Little Auk c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage an 18th Century architect knownOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 11. 5Width: 9Depth: 4. 5The preserved little auk (Alle alle), posed upon a naturalistic setting of a rocky outcrop with grasses to a sky blue sky, presented in its original wooden lantern shaped case with sloping top being glazed on three sides, the borders being lined in paper to imitate an exotic wood, the whole surviving from the zeniths of Victorian period England. The