Grant Featherston

Thanks to Debra for these  buttons.

The Age (Melbourne), 8th May 1953 page 9.

This indicates when the partnership with his first wife, Claire, was dissolved, and presumably their marriage also. Claire appears to have continued with the glass side of the business, and Grant continued with his world-famous furniture designs.

The Age (Melbourne), 21st September 1949 page 4. Sketches of two of his chairs shown at this exhibition are shown below, as featured in The Herald (Melbourne), 19th October 1949 page 15.

Echindas

Or maybe hedgehogs?

Leder (Melbourne), 25th March 1911 page 58.

Museums Victoria, Taxidermy Mount – North African Hedgehog, Atelerix algirus (Lereboullet, 1842). Nice hedgehog, good boy. Don’t bite!

Hmmm. Cute little nose instead of a long snout. I was wrong. Still I am not the only one to be confused …

National Library ID 9862185. 1880s?

The short-beaked echidna found in Australia  is now scientifically named tachyglossius (fast tongues: you should see them lick up ants!) aculeatus , with 3 long-beaked types in Papua New Guinea. They are not, in fact, related to hedgehogs or American anteaters.

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