8th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Cased European Badger (Meles meles), by W.C. Shelbrooke, Taxidermist, 65 Friar's Street, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, a high quality full mount adult with head turning very slightly to the right, stood upon painted simulated soil groundwork, amidst grasses and ferns, set against a watercolour painted woodland scene back drop, enclosed within an ebonised oak framed three-glass display case, 98.5cm by 33cm by 54.5cm, rare to find taxidermist's full paper trade label to verso. W. C. Shelbrooke was previously employed by Peter Spicer & Sons, Leamington, hence the similarity within the case composition and good quality painted back drop.
Estimated at £400 - £600
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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