Lot 145
VICTORIAN MAHOGANY TABLE SPECIMEN CABINET RETAILED BY JAMES TENNANT
MID 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 5 March 2014 at 11:00 GMT
£2,375
Description
of cubic form, the door opening to eight shallow drawers compartmentalised and containing a numbered collection of minerals, rocks, and fossils together with Tennant's hand written pamphlet dated 1851, identifying each specimen by name and location of origin
Dimensions
36cm wide, 37cm high, 28cm deep
Footnote
Note: James Tennant was the first Professor of Mineralogy at King's College, London, and the official Mineralogist to the Queen. His expertise in diamonds is credited with the prediction of their existence in South Africa. He was a consultant for the 1852 re-cutting of the Koh-I-Noor diamond.