Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 19528 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 213.00 TAXACEAE Taxus baccata | Entry Book Number | 69.1907 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Herbert Col Sir Ivor | Donor No | 18 | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Europe, North Persia, Algeria etc.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AThis sample of wood destroyed as it was prepared to be included in the appendix of: Adam Bowett (2012) Woods in British Furniture-Making, 1400-1900: An Illustrated Historical Dictionary. Kew, Eng.: Oblo, ng Creative Ltd. in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2012. xxxiii + 360 pp x0Dx0AProcessing in 2009 by Campbell Norman-Smith of Buckinghamshire New University was to include sanding and cleaning the reverse side of the sample (the side to be scan, ned), then the right hand side of this surface was to be coated with 2 coats of superfine white shellac and isopropynol alcohol whilst the left hand side was left unvarnished. Unfortunately this sample was too brittle for the process and disintegratedx0Dx0A | ||||