A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques Lord Mowbray in William Beckfords

Lord Mowbray in William Beckfords bloodline so the name on the back of the canvas may well be a reference to this decendent

which would have travelled considerably with its owner

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

He met with little success

It is stable and is not now flaking

A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques Lord Mowbray in William BeckfordsOrigin: 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