Cocoa Beans - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65081 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 32.00 STERCULIACEAE Theobroma cacao | Entry Book Number | 3.1910 | |
| Artefact Name | Cocoa Beans | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Cocoa Beans | Geography Description | Island of St Thomas | ||
| Uses | Cocoa BeansUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Johnson WH | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Report by Messrs Lewis & Peat, 6 Minicing Lane London EC dated Feb 11 1910 on samples of Cocoa from St Thomas, for Mr WH Johnson - No 1 good bright red, well cured, bold and well picked, fairly well fermented; break rather dark, about 53/-t, o 54/- per cwt. Good colour and appearance. No 2 nearly as No 1 in description, break rather thicker. Value about 2/- less than No 1. No 3 'Smalls'; worth about 47/- No Dark and unsound break 'weathered cocoa'; perhaps not dried sufficiently quick. Lette, r From Mr Johnson to Mr Hillier dated 16.2.10 - Dear Hillier, thanks very much for your two letters dated 8th & 11th Feb respectively & also for kindly getting cocoa samples valued. You however did not give a value for number iv, was this considered value, less or should the valuation given to No iii apply? If I'm near Mincing Lane on a Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning I shall call on Mr Mumford (?). I have already promised .... and see ..?.. and Potter (?). I sent the Director a 'bag' the other day. Ih, ope it is of interest for Museums. With best regards from yours sincerely Johnson | ||||