A Macabre 19thC Plaster Human Skull for Medical Use sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Five of the boxes include

Five of the boxes include magnificent coloured lithographed slides and were produced by Butcher’s under the ‘Primus’ brand forming part of their famous ‘Junior Lectures’ series: “Jack and the Beanstalk”

and with the central motif being a mortal female

forms several alloys and many medicinal salts

Presenting a superb quality polished section slice of a tooth from the Pleistocene era

Taylor & Co

A Macabre 19thC Plaster Human Skull for Medical Use sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Five of the boxes includeOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown* Date: c. 1870 Circumference: 17. 75 inches In original condition, with no cracks or repairs, the life size human skull used for phrenological and medical study is cast in plaster. Based on the idea that as the skull takes its shape from the brain, the surface of the skull can be read as an index of psychological aptitudes and tendencies, skulls such as this were part of the jigsaw of