Wings

Discovered a seller on ebay who was having a clear out and selling a wide range of vintage items on behalf of his father-in-law. These crow wings date back to the second world war where this particlar man was a soldier in a special regiment and to survive sometimes had to catch and eat whatever he could, this man known as Alf made it his hobby to keep and preserve the remains of the animal's he caught using a method he learnt in Papue New Guinea. When the wings arrived they had a very musty odour which indicated their age, and as described by the seller were very well preserved using his father in laws old technique. I have been looking for a pair of bird wings for a while now to feature as part of my display based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven but was very reluctant to buy from other seller's due to the fact that the bird might have been killed for what I see as unneccessary reason's such as hunting/ culling etc however these are a by-product of an animal that was killed for survival reasons only and not for it's skin or just for fun, I also love that the wings have over 50 year's of history behind them.