A 19thC Taxidermy Stoat in a Naively Painted Display Case sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The tough ticking fabric is

The tough ticking fabric is original to the period and many stools like this are ‘made up’

now wonderfully worn with age

This particular model gave way to an art deco inspired model later in the 1930s

in a good quality later mid-20thc gilt moulded frame and surviving from the nineteenth century in very good order

medications and ephemera all of which one would associate with a busy chemists shop

A 19thC Taxidermy Stoat in a Naively Painted Display Case sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The tough ticking fabric isOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 9. 5Width: 16. 5Depth: 5. 5The preserved stoat (Mustela erminea) specimen housed within a naturalistic setting of grasses and branches with a nave and whimsically painted background of trees, a farmhouse and a windmill amongst birds, the whole housed in a stained and glazed display case surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth century in good overall condition. The