Artwork : ArchiveNo00127

Bird's Egg c.1950

ContributionForm
Contributor Name	Cumberland House
Contributor Image	Claire_Sturman_pic.jpg
Profession
Location	Southsea
Collection Date	02.06.08 1.49pm
Artefact Name	Bird's Egg
Artefact Description	Small egg – approximately 2cm in height. The egg was in very poor condition when it was found - it had been crushed and broken into pieces. Light grey with brown speckles. Pre–1952 as it was illegal to collect wild bird’s eggs after this date.
Artefact Date	c.1950
Artefact Stored	Stores at Cumberland House
Artefact Form
Artefact Image	Archive_no_00127_eggs.jpg
Sample Taken	Pieces of egg shell
Sample Image
History of Artefact	Found by Natural History Officer, Claire Sturman, when she was tidying the stores on 11th January 2008. There was no information attached.
Historian	Claire Sturman
Previous Owners	Unknown
Special Memories	‘They were found in a Tesco Value egg box! Quite ironic really.’ Claire Sturman - Historian
Artwork Image	00127_web.jpg

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