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Postcards
VBI-0209
BRITISH PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS
₹400
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Details
- Publisher / Photographer
- Not specified
- Year
- 1900's
- Publisher / Printer
- Not specified
- Location
- Ilford, Essex
- Subjects
- Pleistocene mammals · Extinct ox · Natural history specimens · British Museum (Natural History)
- Size
- 5.5 x 3.5 in
Description
Postcard illustrating the skull and widely spreading horns of a giant extinct ox, identified in the caption as Bos primigenius, from brick earth at Ilford, Essex. The printed text gives the specimen’s horn span as 42 inches and names the British Museum (Natural History). Numbered G 16, with a printing credit to Waterlow & Sons Limited.
Condition
Good