8th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Cased European Badger (Meles meles), dated 1913, a good quality full mount adult female with head turning to the left, stood upon painted simulated rock and soil groundwork, amidst tall grasses and ferns, set against a graduated blue and yellow watercolour painted back drop, enclosed within a period ebonised three-glass display case, 83cm by 33cm by 63cm, bearing ivorine legend to interior centre - "Badger ♀, Meles Taxus, Linn, Tenbury Worcestershire, (T.S. Yarnold, 1913)".
Sold for £200
Estimated at £200 - £300
Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 8th Sep, 2023
A very rare Victorian cased pair of extinct New Zealand Huia leads the Natural History and Taxidermy Sale. The superb quality male and female huia full mounts were mounted by James E. Whiting, Naturalist, of 19 Heath Street, Hampstead, and are presented perched on a branch and surrounded by hummingbirds, rocks and foliage.
Also on offer in the sale are a Monumental Late Victorian Cased Display of Tropical Birds Native to South America & South East Asia & Oceana, circa 1870-1900 (estimate: £8,000-12,000), an impressive large late Victorian cased White Pelican and White Ibis mounted in 1879 by James Gardiner (estimate: £3,000-5,000), a fine cased diorama of Eurasian Bullfinches by T.E. Gunn, Naturalist of Norwich (estimate: £700-900), an early 20th century Giant Clam Shell (estimate: £500-700), and a modern re-creation of a Toco Toucan by the renowned taxidermist Carl Church of Pickering, North Yorkshire (estimate: £1,500-2,500).
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Thursday 7th September 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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