A Tasmanian specimen wood and whale bone display tray, of shaped outline with raised back, inlaid in various Australian timbers in geometric patterns, within a pierced whalebone gallery border, late 19th century, height 28 cm, width 34 cm, depth 21 cm. Provenance: by repute, Captain John King Davis, second in command of Mawson's 1911-14 expedition to the Antarctic