An unusual set of park deer antlers from Woburn with twenty-seven points, first half 20th century

Claire Bingham, The New Naturalists, Inside the Home of Creative Collectors, China, 2022, p. 20.

The concept of the Deer Park was introduced by the Normans with the earliest reference at Woburn Abbey dating back to 1661,  found in the Survey,  the 5^th Earl of Bedford reserved the well-wooded deer park for his own use.  Detailed records did not however formulate until 1802 under the 6th Duke, the Parks inventory following his death in 1839,  give total of 1,200 Fallow and 45 red deer.  Not much changed until the 11^th Duke and his wife,  collected 42 species to add to the well established Red and Fallow deer and keeping a register of animals births deaths and purchases 1893-1914.