Scraper used in collecting cork - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 37819 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 159.03 FAGACEAE Quercus suber | Entry Book Number | 100.1892 | |
| Artefact Name | Scraper used in collecting cork | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Algeria | TDWG Region | Algeria | ||
| Parts Held | Scraper used in collecting cork | Geography Description | Algeria, Philippeville | ||
| Uses | Scraper used in collecting corkUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Scratchley Vice Consul | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: The cork oak is a native of the Mediterranean region, being particularly plentiful in Spain, Portugal, S France, Corsica, Sicily, Morocco, Algeria and Tunis. The first cork to be cut from a tree, termed virgin cork, is not of good quality a, nd is largely ground up for the manufacture of cork mats, linoleum etc. Further harvests are cut at intervals of 6 to 10 years, when the better cork is used for bottle corks and bungs and the waste is ground up for the same purposes as virgin cork. | ||||