Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 9553 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 67.01 MYRTACEAE Eucalyptus marginata | Entry Book Number | 20.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Australia | TDWG Region | Australia | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Western Australia | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat. Hist.) | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Tech. Museum Sydneyx0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: One of the finest forest trees of Western Australia and the timber is being used for all kinds of building construction, including wharves, bridges etc. It is used extensively for railway sleepers. It also makes up well into any kind of hea, vy funiture or shop and office fittings.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 coa, ts of superfine white shellac and isopropynol alcohol whilst the left hand side was left unvarnished. x0Dx0A | ||||