Two Large 20thC Preserved Starfish Specimens sub-Curios the 'fifties

the 'fifties

Holland and Sons also worked extensively for the British Government

There are two to three generations per year in Florida and one in the northern part of the range with adults on wing from mid to late summer

The paintwork is stunning with the top now totally worn of paint

presented in its original wooden lantern shaped case with sloping top being glazed on three sides

Two Large 20thC Preserved Starfish Specimens sub-Curios the 'fiftiesOrigin: Indo PacificPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: The Collection of the late William Owen (1907 1996)Date: c. 1970One: 14 x 15 x 4 hTwo: 15 x 13. 5 x 3. 5 hThe large Starfish specimens (Asteroidea), one having five arms, the other with six, each being particularly large and wonderfully decorative and surviving from the late estate of William Owen (1907 1996) and the middle part of the twentieth century. The reverses to the specimens have some loss as