A carved ivory box with a lid. The top of the lid is decorated with an interlaced strap ornament. The sides of lid and the box itself are decorated with a guilloche ornament. The ends of the lid and the box are decorated with chevrons and both vertical and horizontal incised lines.
236. Armlet, West Africa, Made in the 19th century from ivory. Maker unrecorded. 237.Box, Nineteenth Century. A carved ivory box with a lid. 238. Carving in Ivory. An oblong withg one side showing in sunk panel fully clothed man with rosette above. 239. Ivory Rasp? with cylindrical teeth. 240, 241 & 242 Horns.
Donated by Mr F W Lucas in 1925, Solicitor. Collector of Vertebrate skeletal material & ethnographic items. Author. Museum owner. He also lived at St Switherns, 117 Marine Parade, Brighton c. 1911. Lived at 117 Marine Parade Brighton (July 1914). Vertebrate collections entirely purchased. A letter from Lucas to A F Griffith, Six original photographs of his Rottingdean Museum, five copies of his museum & one of him as well as his original (hand written) catalogue are in the Booth Museum biographical reference section. Donated R2015 collection in 1919. Register states address as: Northgate house, Rottingdean
Donated R2778 collection in November 1925: Register states address as: Speer (?) Court, Newbury, United Kingdom.