1927 Dinner Menu Honoring JG Andersson, Discoverer Of Peking Man SIGNED RARE
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:1126598 | Country/Region of Manufacture: China |
Up for auction is an original dinner menu to honor the discoverer of Peking Man (Homo erectus), Johan Gunnar Andersson. The dinner was held at the Hotel du Nord in Peking on April 25, 1927. The menu features fake entries for extinct species (e.g. Testudo insolitus) with hand-written geological eras next to them.
The menu is signed by Johan Gunnar Andersson, by co-discoverer Walter W. Granger, and by dinner guests who were involved in the Peking Man discovery and classification, ...including: Amadeus William Grabau, Wong Wen-hao (Weng Wenhao), Davidson Black , George Brown Barbour.
The menu is signed by Johan Gunnar Andersson, by co-discoverer Walter W. Granger, and by dinner guests who were involved in the Peking Man discovery and classification, ...including: Amadeus William Grabau, Wong Wen-hao (Weng Wenhao), Davidson Black , George Brown Barbour.
