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Postcards
VBI-0211
DUCKBILL, OR PLATYPUS (ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS)
₹400
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Details
- Publisher / Photographer
- Not specified
- Year
- 1900's
- Publisher / Printer
- Oxford University Press (printer)
- Location
- British Museum (Natural History)
- Subjects
- Platypus · Natural history · Museum specimens · British Museum (Natural History)
- Size
- 5.5 x 3.5 in
Description
Postcard depicting a mounted platypus in profile on a low display base, its flattened bill, webbed feet and broad tail clearly shown. The caption identifies the specimen as “Duckbill, or Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)” and gives its length as 1 ft. 8 in. The lower margin names the British Museum (Natural History), carries the reference B 41, and states “Printed at the Oxford Univ. Press.”
Condition
Good