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Edible Crab Claw
Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Sunday, 11th January 2009
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Edible Crab, Cancer pagurus
claw 4.5cm long
THIS CRAB CLAW seems like a cross between a boxing glove and a surgical instrument. It must have been from a crab which had died or which had lost its claw because when a crab moults its outer shell the parts split and I see no sign of that.
This book of Common Sea Weeds by Mrs Louisa Lane Clark of Cambridge Park, Guernsey was recently given to me. I can’t find any date in it but it must have been about the same time that Frederick Warne & Co. started publishing Beatrix Potter’s children’s books.
There’s an advertisement on the back cover for ‘James Gardner; Bird, Animal and Fish
Preserver, Hoof and Horn Mounter, Furrier and Plumassier’. You could find him at
52 High Holborn, London. No phone number, fax . . . or e-
