Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 70799 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Borassus flabellifer | 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 | V & A Indian Section | Donor No | 25 | ||
| Donor Date | 27/09/1951 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Set of 281 Indian timbers C Lazarus & Co Calcutta Opuscular source: Originally on loan to the V & A by the Royal Family, now transferred to Kew at their request (ref letters D.5697 & D.6308 for details)x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AA scanned image of the wood was i, ncluded 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 Nor, man-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 si, de was left unvarnished. x0Dx0A | ||||