A Rare Preserved Natural History Specimen of a Hermit Crab & Sea Anemone, Prepared by T Gerrard & Co Ltd sub-Antiques with numerous adornments

with numerous adornments

Junior is in very good overall original condition

the whole presented unframed

Although un-mounted they could easily sit upon a tabletop and act as a terrific conversation starter

the decahydrate Na2SO4·10H2O has been known as Glauber's salt or

A Rare Preserved Natural History Specimen of a Hermit Crab & Sea Anemone, Prepared by T Gerrard & Co Ltd sub-Antiques with numerous adornmentsOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 1910 Diameter: 3. 5 inches (at maximum) Height: 7 inches The specimen, preserved in formaldehyde within a cylindrical glass capsule, the label in latin reading Adamsia palliata on Eupagurus Bernhardus Commensalism and further makers label for T Gerrard & Co Ltd, Pentonville Road, London. The specimen, and the capsule it resides in, are in fine