2nd Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased European Wigeon (Mareca penelope), by W.R. Pape, Taxidermy, Collingwood Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, est 1830, an adult male Wigeon looking straight ahead, stood within a plain papered interior, enclosed within a period painted pine single-glass display case, 50.5cm by 23.5cm by 36.5cm, signed to interior lower left - "W.R. Pape, Newcastle", bearing full paper trade label to verso.
Sold for £160
Estimated at £150 - £200
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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