Three Rare & Large Early Victorian Gothic Cast Iron Cathedral Floor Grilles c.1840 sub-Antiques often given as a love

often given as a love token and created on New England whaling ships

There is one small hairline crack to the base but is neither noticeable nor problematic

The preserved juvenile black bear (ursus americanus) taxidermy mount

Henry the Hermit

He is an early example and there also remains the possibility of the him being continental

Three Rare & Large Early Victorian Gothic Cast Iron Cathedral Floor Grilles c.1840 sub-Antiques often given as a loveOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1840Height: 48. 5Width: 24. 25Depth: 0. 5 (each x3)The large and rare trio of cast iron floor grilles or grates, each with an intricate and beautiful repeating gothic design of conforming circles with quatrefoils, having been part of the flooring area for ventilation in a large church or cathedral, each of rectangular form and surviving from the high gothic period of the early Victorian