Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 70756 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 43.01 MELIACEAE Melia indica | Entry Book Number | 16.1951 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Indian Section V & A | Donor No | 2 | ||
| Donor Date | 27/09/1951 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: C Lazarus & Co Calcutta. Set of Indian timbers - wooden box containing 281 specimen blocks originally on loan to the V & A by the Royal family, and are now transferred to Kew by their request (ref letters D. 5697 & D. 6308 for details)x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AA, scanned image of the wood was included in the appendix of: Adam Bowett (2012) Woods in British Furniture-Making, 1400-1900: An Illustrated Historical Dictionary. Kew, Eng.: Oblong Creative Ltd. in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2012. xxxiii, + 360 pp x0Dx0AIn 2009 Campbell Norman-Smith of Buckinghamshire New University sanded and cleaned the reverse side of the sample (the side to be scanned), then coated the right hand side of this surface with 2 coats of superfine white shellac and isopropynol, alcohol whilst the left hand side was left unvarnished. x0Dx0A | ||||