17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST

Natural History & Taxidermy

 
Lot 209
 

209

Taxidermy: An Erythristic European Badger Mask (Meles meles), dated 1937, by Bill Cox, Taxidermy, 36 Manchester Street, Liverpool, an adult Badger mask with mouth agape in defensive pose, with head turning to the left, mounted upon a shaped oak shield, 23.5cm from the wall, with applied ivorine plaque - "Chery Hill, November 1937", bearing taxidermist's full paper trade label to verso. The erythristic badger has mainly sandy or gingery colour hair on the back and sides and the hair on the underbelly can be a shade of red. The eyes will normally be light brown in colour but in some cases they may have a reddish appearance

Sold for £220
Estimated at £150 - £200


 

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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