A Group of Eight Mid-19thC Hand-Coloured Engravings of British Birds c.1857 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope hand powered breakdown cranes were

hand powered breakdown cranes were not totally dispensed with until implementation of the Modernisation Plan in the 1950s

It is flown in addition to the Naval Ensign

all surviving from the middle part of the nineteenth century

Shelbrooke

and Blaenau Ffestiniog

A Group of Eight Mid-19thC Hand-Coloured Engravings of British Birds c.1857 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope hand powered breakdown cranes wereOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1857 Height: 10. 75 Width: 7. 25 (each) The octet of early Victorian period engravings, with the finely executed hand colouring to each, being original illustrations published in 1857 in Henry Leonard Meyer's 'Illustrations of British Birds and Their Eggs', hailing from the middle of the nineteenth century and showing a wonderful and vibrant array of birds, each now framed for