17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Taxidermy: African Scops Owl (Otus senegalensis), modern, a high quality full mount adult in resting pose looking straight ahead, perched atop a small dry tree stump, set above painted groundwork beneath, enclosed within a period oval glass dome, with original ebonised supporting base, 26cm by 15.5cm by 43cm
Not for sale to buyers outside the UK
Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 17th Apr, 2024
This April, Tennants Auctioneers are delighted to have been instructed to sell the Taxidermy Collection of Colonel Stephenson Robert Clarke, businessman, British Army officer, botanist, naturalist, ornithologist, horticulturist, art collector and landowner. The majority of the 61 lots are specimens taken by Stephenson Clarke on four hunting trips to Africa between 1909 and 1924 and were mounted by the renowned Rowland Ward Ltd of Piccadilly, London. Several of the lots are recorded in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game (View Press Release).
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Tuesday 16 April 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am
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