This April, Tennants Auctioneers are delighted to have been instructed to sell the Taxidermy Collection of Colonel Stephenson Robert Clarke, businessman, British Army officer, botanist, naturalist, ornithologist, horticulturist, art collector and landowner. The majority of the 61 lots are specimens taken by Stephenson Clarke on four hunting trips to Africa between 1909 and 1924 and were mounted by the renowned Rowland Ward Ltd of Piccadilly, London. Several of the lots are recorded in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game (View Press Release).
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British and European Glass (1)
Natural History and Taxidermy (289)
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Lot 121
Taxidermy: A Cased Ural Owl (Strix uralensis),...
Sold for £1,600
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500
Lot 150
Taxidermy: A Cased Display of Exotic Tropical...
Sold for £1,200
Estimated at £1,200 - £1,800
Lot 180
Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Gharial Crocodile...
Sold for £2,600
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500