RELICS FROM EXTINCT BIRDS: A FEATHER OF A MALE PASSENGER PIGEON, ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS

North America, extinct since 1/9/1914, in display box, of Natural History interest,

the feather 40mm long

Provenance: From the collection of celebrated taxidermist Barry Williams.

Viktor Wynd’s Museum, London.

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is a contemporary reinterpretation of a Pre-Enlightenment Wunderkabinett or Cabinet of Curiosities. It is the creation of artist and writer Viktor Wynd, who has just opened a Falmouth branch of his museum inside the National Maritime Museum. His most recent book 'The UnNatural History Museum' was published by Prestel in 2020.