17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Cased Pair of European Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola), circa 1936-1960, by Thomas Salkeld, Taxidermy, Over Kellet, Carnforth, a high quality pair of full mount adults, one nestled amongst leaves and brush, the other stood alert beside, mounted upon frosted groundwork, amidst dry grasses and fauna, set against a watercolour painted lakescene with snow covered mountains in the distance, enclosed within a period four-glass table display case, 51cm by 22.5cm by 35cm, taxidermist's full small paper trade label to interior upper left
Sold for £250
Estimated at £300 - £400
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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