An Unusual Mid-20thC Taxidermy Puffer Blow/Porcupine Fish Mounted as a Table Lamp sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles An ideal table for a

An ideal table for a conservatory

in a neat secretarial hand

the result of many generations use

blank shield to lid

the medical studies anatomical skeleton with part of an original paper label to the skull and full paper label to the lid of the box

An Unusual Mid-20thC Taxidermy Puffer Blow/Porcupine Fish Mounted as a Table Lamp sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles An ideal table for aOrigin: English Period: Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 Length: 19 inches Width: 12 inches Height: 11 inches Oh Martin, you look well, glowing with health, and my, what a lovely mock coral base you are sitting on! Thank you, its awfully comfortable retorted Martin. And so it was, my first encounter with Martin the puffer fish, a spiky chap but as soft as a brush and as hollow as the murmur of the midnight sea. Hes lost a few of his