15th Dec, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
2280
Taxidermy: A Cased Northern Pike (Esox lucius), dated 1953, by John Cooper & Sons, 28 Radnor Street, St Luke's, London, EC, (Griggs), preserved and mounted in a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled river bed with flowing weeds below, mounted against a painted graduated green backdrop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 107cm by 19cm by 39.5cm, taxidermist's full paper trade label to interior upper left, gold legend to front glass - ''Pike 15lbs 1oz, caught by J.W. Cooper at Radcot on 14.8.1953''
Sold for £800
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 15th Dec, 2023
An interesting auction of various Entomology and Natural History items, including a collection of commemorative horses’ hooves mounted by the notable taxidermist’s Rowland Ward, a good selection of modern taxidermy specimens by Tony Armitstead, Carl Church, and Robert Ellis, and historical taxidermy specimens mounted by Peter Spicer, John Macpherson, Van Ingen & Van Ingen, Rowland Ward, F.C. Waters, James Hutchings, W.C. Shelbrooke, Robert Duncan, W.F. Homer, John Cooper, A.S. Hutchinson of Derby, Henry Murray, and Thomas Jefferies, to name but a few.
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Wednesday 13th December 10am-4pm, Thursday 14th December 10am-5pm, and the morning of the sale from 8am.
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