The acorn finial has been re-attached at some stage and there are a couple of chips to the inside of the cover
which originated as a co-operative society for military officers in the nineteenth century
the animal has been depicted with a friendly and calm demeanour
or merely an easy scapegoat for the biggest maritime catastrophe seen in modern times
The patina is good and honest with the weathering making them an elephant grey colour
A Grecian Style Copper & Pine Domed Architectural Cupola c.1870; Ex Codford Manor sub-Antiques The acorn finial has beenOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Codford Manor, Wiltshire, UK Date: c. 1870 Diameter: 30 Height: 60 The large and hugely decorative copper dome cupola, at five feet high, over an applied band of scroll foliate and pillar decoration, raised on pine baluster turned supports with a turned spindle gallery enclosing inverse curved panels, the whole with exceptional patina and verdigris and salvaged from Codford Manor, Wiltshire, England.