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copal

Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Copal_Madagascar.jpg

IMAGE INFORMATION

Several handsome specimens of Copal, containing many small insects

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

August 23, 1809

Primary Source Reference:

Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 23 Aug 1809

Notes:

Copal is tree resin in an intermediate stage of polymerization and hardening between "gummier" resins and amber. Pictured here is copal from Madagascar with spiders, termites, ants, elateridae, hymenoptera, cockroach and a flower.

Philadelphia directories list a David Bartling, carpenter.