Accession No

5733

Brief Description

large cream painted vasculum with cloth strap

Origin

Maker

Class

natural history

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

metal (tin (?), iron); cloth (strap)

Dimensions

length 614mm; height 126mm; width 340mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred by David Briggs, Curator at the Herbarium, University of Cambridge, England on 02/08/1999.

Inscription

Description Notes

Vasculum- a case with oval cross section made out of ?plated tin? painted cream. One of the flat sides is almost entirely taken up with a door, hinged at the bottom and fastened by a rod which slides into a loop on the body of the vasculum. At the top is a square handle with rounded underside made of the same material as the bulk of the item. At each side of the top are metal loops through which runs a thick brown cloth strap with iron or steel buckle.
Fair to good condition (the paint is worn in places and it has a few dents). Complete

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