A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques With many families reeling from

With many families reeling from the financial devastation of The Great Depression

It is stable and is not now flaking

Charles Benjamin Collett (10 September 1871 - 5 April 1952) was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway from the time this poster was issued in 1922

instead of such an art being left in the hands of a few

A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques With many families reeling fromOrigin: English with the Specimens Indo Pacific AtlanticPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1860 701: 9. 5 high x 9. 5 diameter2: 8 high x 9 diameterThe Victorian preserved coral displays, showing the twig like tubular appressed clustered Acropora coral specimens, the first example with a large central specimen with fan corals to the base, beneath an original compressed glass circular dome with rope twist border on circular ebonised