Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2 for 1950.686: 'Weight in shape of cat fish. Body twisted, flat head with ridged body.50.686 Cat fish, head broken with portion missing. Ridged body and flat head. Underneath lattice arrangement. 50.686 Crocodile with coiled tail, criss-cross design on body.'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Welcome Museum label associated with objects 1950.686.1-7 states it was purchased from Sotheby's on 26/07/1932, Lot 132 for £7 and 10 shillings, Nos 4719-4798.

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Event Date 26/7/1932
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1 for 1950.686: 'Four brass and one bronze gold-weight in the shapes of fishes and two brass gold-weights in the form of crocodiles.'
Event Date 1950
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Note on the back of catalogue card for 1950.686: 'Checked July 73. 2 catfish. 1 crocodile. 2 sawfish'.
Event Date 07/1973
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Note on the back of catalogue card for 1950.686: '2 fish 2 crocodiles identified Aug. 1978. See also Z 25274-25295. Z 25563.'. The note is not signed but the handwritting matches notes by D.A.S. dated 1978.
Event Date 1978
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Tabitha Cotterill: 'Many of the golweights at UCMAA have small coloured dots adhered to them. The numbers written on these refer to the weight of the goldweight in grams' (05/11/2001).
Event Date 5/11/2001
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Abrammo. Bronze goldweight in the shape of a cat fish.
Event Date 15/10/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau