A Scarce & Early Folk Magic Specimen of a Mummified Dog in Case c.1700-1800 antiques Southend was often used by

Southend was often used by the German bombers as a dumping ground for their bomb loads during the war if their primary target was not possible to hit there too many of these incidents to list

and highly sought after today

the carcass with an exceptional glass like patina to the original painted surfaces

Remaining in fair overall condition considering their relative fragility

well-travelled

A Scarce & Early Folk Magic Specimen of a Mummified Dog in Case c.1700-1800 antiques Southend was often used byOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Probably Early 18thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1700 1800Height: 17Width: 23Depth: 6. 5The well preserved mummified or dried specimen of a small breed of dog with fully intact and with teeth, having been discovered in the roof of a Tudor house in Suffolk, and now presented in a good contemporary glazed box frame with dark blue paper backing and held with invisible twine, the whole surviving from the early eighteenth century