Fibre beards and sea silk

Fibre beards and sea silk, I-La Spezia, 19th century. Oxford University Museum (Zoological Collections) (MS Inventory 69)

Cleaned and combed sea silk, Oxford

Label Pinna rotundata

Fibre beards and sea silk, I-La Spezia, 19th century. Oxford University Museum (Zoological Collections) (MS Inventory 69).

The label to an 1891 Pinna rotundata with the name Greville J. Chester suggests that the fibre beards and the cleaned and combed sea silk came into the museum collection at the same time.

Greville J. Chester (1830-1892) was an Anglican priest and a great patron of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Source:
Seidmann, G., 2006 The Rev Greville John Chester and ‘The Ashmolean Museum as a Home for Archaeology in Oxford’. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 16(1), pp.27-33.