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Description: | This is a plaster model of Great Auk's egg. This was a large flightless seabird that went extinct during the late 1840s. At that time, specimens of the rare bird and it's eggs were in great demand with collectors. John Hancock, who made this model, owned an egg, but supplemented his collection by making copies of eggs that belonged to other collectors. This is a model of an egg that belonged to J. P Wilmot. It was made in 1856. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | animals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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