17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: Anthropomorphic Game Keeper Mouse, dated 2023, by A.J. Armitstead, Taxidermist & Naturalist, Darlington, Co Durham, a full mount gamekeeper mouse in full shooting attire, stood upon a small moss encrusted tree stump, with miniature shotgun and walking stick in hand, mounted amidst moss and ferns, on floating groundwork, set against a watercolour painted woodland scene back drop, enclosed within an oak framed wall hanging five-glass display case, 19.5cm by 6cm by 28.5cm excluding outer frame, signed to interior lower right, taxidermist's full paper trade label to verso
Sold for £180
Estimated at £200 - £300
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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