2nd Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Juvenile Slender-Billed Gull (Chroicocephalus genei), by Edward Allen, Bird Fish and Animal Preserver, No. 6, Feasegate, York, a full mount juvenile with head turning back and to the left, stood upon a faux moss covered rock, amidst a natural setting of tall grasses, reeds and fauna, above pebble and grit covered groundwork, set against a pale blue painted interior, enclosed within a typical period ebonised single-glass display case, 42.5cm by 22.5cm by 45.5cm
Sold for £100
Estimated at £70 - £100
Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 2nd Sep, 2022
Over 360 lots of Natural History and Taxidermy, including a superb recreation of a Dodo by Carl Church, a Giant Clam Shell from the early 20th Century, fine collectors cabinets and rare pieces such as a taxidermy Ocean Sun Fish and a Pair of Oilbirds by Rowland Ward.
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