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

until 1914

geometrical and traditional

the Bramber Museum

Queen Victoria permitted much of the royal plate to be copied by Elkingtons and they were also the suppliers of flatware to the luxury dining sections on board the Titanic and other ships in the White Star Line fleet

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