The kaleidoscope was the iPhone of the 19th century, reckons British designer ... Wood’s Meisen Tall cabinet (left) and Meisen Caterpillar cabinet. “So I digested all of this stuff together ...

resembles a turn-of-the-20th-century curio shop; antique toys and objects, including mechanical puppets and handmade globes, sit beside the designer’s wares in vintage walnut cabinets.

The headline curio is Lady Cust’s great auk egg—a unique specimen from the penguin-like flightless bird that went extinct in the mid-19th century ... and a British antique dealer.