A Cased Taxidermy Little Auk c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and complex for a cabinet-maker

and complex for a cabinet-maker to execute

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

so some might just as easily be of Dutch make

carved with lotus leaves and a central wreath in the high Georgian manner

A Cased Taxidermy Little Auk c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and complex for a cabinet-makerOrigin: 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