The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Lobster Claw

Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].
Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 33 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: "The Claw of a Great Lobster."
Burton Constable label: ‘The Claw of I a Great Lob- I ster that [---] I had
probably I been near a I yard long. / Thoresby P. 438.’