13th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Case of Mixed Canaries, attributed to John or Henry Shaw, Taxidermist's, Salop, Shropshire, a cased diorama of six various Canaries, all perched upon and around a centrally positioned branch, set above painted rocks, dry grasses, ferns and fauna, above a typical green painted floor, set against a pale blue painted interior, enclosed within a period ebonised single glass display case with gilded external border, 45.5cm by 16cm by 50.5cm
Sold for £220
Estimated at £150 - £250
Specimens identified - to the centre a Yorkshire Canary, surrounded by Norwich Canaries showing traces of colour feeding (i.e. the practice of feeding Norwich canaries with cayenne pepper during the moult, which started in the 1870's)
Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 13th Nov, 2024
The November Natural History and Taxidermy Sale will offer a varied range of antique and good modern taxidermy, with examples by leading names such as Rowland Ward, Peter Spicer, Van Ingen & Van Ingen and more.
The sale will also feature two good private collections: the first being a sixty-lot private collection of bird and animal specimens including many by John Burton, Natural Craft Taxidermy, Gloucestershire; the second is the thirty-five-lot Robert Chinnery Collection. Chinnery is a well-known collector and dealer in taxidermy, and he has widely researched and authored books on the subject.
Also on offer will be four lots by Walter Potter of Bramber, Sussex, which were once included in Bonhams' 2003 auction of The Contents of Mr Potter's Museum of Curiosities held at Jamaica Inn, Cornwall. The auction comprised of 613 Lots of the interesting and World-famous Mr Walter Potter’s collection, previously housed within his very own museum at Bramber, Sussex.
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Sunday 10th November - Monday 11th November 11am-4pm, Tuesday 12th November 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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