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A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus survives from mid nineteenth century

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survives from mid nineteenth century Europe

The mirror plate appears to be original with the backboards in place and a hanging hook integral to it

the reverse with Hō-ō

Another 1806 sources states that on 20th May "after a few weeks village preaching by some of the neighbouring ministers

with some tattiness to the bariading in places with loss

A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus survives from mid nineteenth centuryOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England Date: c. 1880 Height: 44. 5 Width: 26 (to include balustrade mouldings) Depth: 12. 5 (at legs) The exquisite quality rectangular double sided cheval fire screen or room divider, inset with symmetrical arrangements of exotic butterflies and moths, totalling over five hundred specimens, the collection being glazed to a minimalist museum ivory buff ground

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