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slab of real tortoiseshell
MANUFACTURING AND DISPENSING EQUIPMENT
raw material
Asia: Seychelles
Early 20th c.
tortoiseshell
overall: 151 mm x 53 mm

Slab of sawn, but unpolished, tortoiseshell from a Hawksbill turtle. (Raw material for spectacle frame manufacture). Historic handwritten paper label stuck on.


2009.192

Gift of Mr and Mrs Robert and Juliette (nee Hugill) Townshend, in memory of George Hugill, 2009



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