17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Re-Creation of a Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco), modern, by World Renowned Taxidermist Carl Church, Pickering, Nth Yks, a high quality re-creation of a full mount adult Toco toucan, perched with head slightly raised upon a natural tree branch, amidst enhanced faux leaves and fauna, set against and upon an ebonised sloping back drop, enclosed beneath a bespoke ebonised five-glass table display case, raised on a rectangular base, supported upon four rubber feet, 48.5cm by 34.5cm by 84.5cm, bearing taxidermist's inset ivorine button trade label to interior
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 17th Apr, 2024
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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Tuesday 16 April 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am
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