MR ART WEIL wrote:
>
> Dear Doug;-
>     Looks like Bobbi is the person to talk to. But let me add: I work
> at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. We have (I believe) 97
> models of shells and their snails intact. Some are of Nudibranchs.
> They are all quite beautiful. We have no idea who made them or how
> the museum acquired them. They are not on display.
>           Art
 
The Milwaukee Public Museum has 70 invertebrate glass models including
21 nudibranch models.  They were made by Leopold & Rudolph Blaschka for
Ward's Natural Science Establishment in the 1880's.
 
Jass, Joan P. 1987-02. Milwaukee Public Museum Blaschka glass models,
per Ward's "Catalogue..." of 1888.  Shells and Sea Life 18(2):6-8; 32
illus.
 
Steve Long
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