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Le Sabot Entouré de rangs des pointes jaunetres
Trans.: The sabot surrounded by rows of yellow tips

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

October 1765

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 96, 2

Additional Source Text:

"De la providence."

Notes:

Sabot (French, shoe) was the colloquial name for a trochus, a genus of medium-sized to large, top-shaped sea snails with an operculum and a pearly inside to their shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae.

Du Simitière's Common Name:

Sabot