A Good c.1900 Dome Cased Taxidermy Fruit Bat sub-Curios mortuaries or forensic science institute’s

mortuaries or forensic science institute’s whenever they photographed people it was usually on tables or standing up in that they would usually pin them to tables and turn them upright

The octagonal carved stone plinth

set upon an ochre coloured landscape having trees

The subject matter is quite unusual

The early twentieth century set of five matching X-framed pine chairs with slatted backs

A Good c.1900 Dome Cased Taxidermy Fruit Bat sub-Curios mortuaries or forensic science institute’sOrigin: 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