 Click on the image to view a larger version | | Lot No. | | *** | | Description: | An Height B. Dobbie Nz Native Timber Fern Specimen Cabinet made in Whangarei c.1880. This very important historical cabinet was constructed and carved by Height B. Dobbie (b.1852 England, arrived in Nz after 1875 and died 1940). Herbert Dobbie was an engineer, traveller, writer, botanist & expert wood carver. He travelled extensively on his penny farthing bicycle and on foot collecting ferns as he went in order to collate the first book on New Zealand ferns in 1880. He built a house and a fernery in Market Rd where he lived out the rest of his life. The cabinet contains 19th C fern specimens together with a 3rd edition New Zealand Ferns C1930 book. Width 166 cm Height 108 cm Depth 41 cm Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from the Dobbie estate | | Estimate: | *** | | Price: | *** | | Category: | Furniture — Cabinets - Display | | | | |
