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Postcards
VBI-0226
FOSSIL FISHES
₹400
Available
Details
- Publisher / Photographer
- Not specified
- Year
- 1900's
- Publisher / Printer
- Not specified
- Location
- Near Hastings, Sussex
- Subjects
- Fossil fishes · Palaeontology · Lepidotus mantelli · British Museum (Natural History)
- Size
- 5.5 x 3.5 in
Description
Postcard illustrating a fossil fish in lateral view, with the head, overlapping scales, fins and forked tail clearly delineated. The caption identifies the specimen as Lepidotus mantelli from the Wealden near Hastings, Sussex, and gives its length as about three feet. The card bears the name of the British Museum (Natural History), reference G 28, and the printer’s credit to Waterlow & Sons Limited.
Condition
Good