8th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Cased Black Grouse (Lyrurus tetrix), dated 2007, by Roger G. Fisher, Taxidermy, Sheffield, a superb quality full mount adult cock bird with head slightly lowered and tail fanned, stood upon painted faux rocks, amidst a natural setting or dry grasses and gorse, set against a watercolour painted moorland back drop, enclosed within a mahogany framed four-glass display case, 62cm by 34cm by 51.5cm, a trade mark Jay wing feather to the interior groundwork, signed and dated to interior lower right.
Sold for £700
Estimated at £250 - £350
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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