A Good Quality Victorian Dome Cased Taxidermy White Cockatoo c.1880 sub-Curios Oak Hook-Tip

Oak Hook-Tip

opening to depict picture and script: ' In Sacred memory of " The Titanic" which collided with an iceberg off cape race

There are small sections of loss to the frieze and some damages to the base

E” survives from the middle of the nineteenth century and is contemporary with the murders of Jack the Ripper of 1888

though the drawer can still be opened and closed OK

A Good Quality Victorian Dome Cased Taxidermy White Cockatoo c.1880 sub-Curios Oak Hook-TipOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 25. 5 (the whole) The Base: 13. 5 Wide x 9 Deep The stuffed and mounted White or Umbrella Cockatoo, Cacatua alba, in good overall condition, perched amidst a well executed naturalistic setting with butterflies, flora and fauna, under a good quality late Victorian glass dome with gold velvet lining on a rectangular base and raised on an ebonised plinth with gold rope twist