Great Western Auctions
Lot 348
A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY GRADUATED SEVEN DRAWER COLLECTORS CABINET with vertical hinged flaps, each drawer with individual contents including semi-precious stones, ancient arrow heads, pipes etc, 51 x 38cm Provenance: Mr Harold Spencer, Fellow of Geological Society and recipient of the Fullerton Award Born in Hampshire, Mr. Spencer moved to Suffolk at the age of four, and went to school at Felixstowe. He served during the 1914-18 War with the Machine Gun Corps. After the war, he did temporary and voluntary work for Ipswich Museum for five years before joining their full-time staff in 1925. As the first professional assistant appointed to the museum, he gained a wide knowledge of archaeology and geology working on a wide variety of collections. Mr. Spencer was made a Fellow of the Geological Society soon after the second world war. In 1957, he received the Fullerton award from the Geologists' Association of London, partly for research and partly in recognition of geological work done. In the same year he had the unusual distinction of having a new fossil species of tree named after him - Cercidiphyllum Spenceri, a specimen which he found in the London clay on the Orwell Shore at Bridge Wood. Condition Report: Available upon request
