Bristol Zoological Gardens: A Group of Twenty-Six Mid 20thC Enclosure Plaques c.1940-60

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Bristol Zoological Gardens: A Group of Twenty-Six Mid 20thC Enclosure Plaques c.1940-60Origin: English Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Bristol Zoological Gardens, Bristol, England Date: c. 1940 60 The Larger: 6 wide x 3 high The Smaller: 6 wide x 1. 5 high Priced individually, the collection of twenty six original mid twentieth century animal enclosure plaque signs, the earliest being 1946 and latest 1955, each in jet black with yellow lettering or white with red lettering, imprinted with the animal's name, details and species in Latin,

and the infirmary and chapel to the South of the cloister

Each of the blocks was to be designated for a specific management class of inmate including

A wonderful way to add instant curiosity to tabletop or cabinet

portrait miniature as we see here

the top engraved 'Watch and Pray' with seven graduated incised lines below

The rarely found butchers slaughtering or tethering block or boulder

the whole on a dark ground to a green table cloth

depicting them in art

Technology was a chief reason for their decline

survives from early to mid-Victorian England

Diameter: 14 inches

the whole with paint losses showing the blue base colour