A Scarce Early Mummified Rat Under a Glass Dome From Furness Abbey, Lancashire sub-Curios Height: 17

Height: 17

obviously the fair hand of the shopkeeper whose sign this was

but it is rumored they were invented in Greece many years ago with clamshells having featured as birdbaths all over the world

A slightly less busy all over striped design than others of its type

A Scarce Early Mummified Rat Under a Glass Dome From Furness Abbey, Lancashire sub-Curios Height: 17Origin: British Period: Seventeenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1600 1700 Height: 6 inches (the Dome) Diameter: 5. 5 inches (the Dome) Length: 4 inches (the Rat) The dried rat displayed in a later glass dome on ebonised oval plinth with annotated museum labeling to the underside; Found Embedded In The Original Masonry of Furness Abbey, Lancashire survives from the post medieval period. Condition is good, given age and fragility, the whole