A Good c.1900 Dome Cased Taxidermy Fruit Bat sub-Natural History wooden torso

wooden torso

Pieces of folk art are ephemeral

She would have been wealthy

lacking the hands

survive from the first quarter of the twentieth century

A Good c.1900 Dome Cased Taxidermy Fruit Bat sub-Natural History wooden torsoOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Height: 16 Base Diameter: 11. 25 The rare preserved mature fruit bat, posed hanging upside down, to a grassy naturalistic base, and housed in its original glass domed case to ebonised base and rope twist border, the whole surviving from the zeniths of Victorian period England. The specimen is presented in very good condition considering the relative fragility and age. The entire