20th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Taxidermy: A Juvenile White Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea), dated 1961, by Dr James Harrison, Sevenoaks, Kent, an unusual and rare full mount juvenile female White Grey Heron, with head turning to the left, stood upon muddy groundwork, amidst a natural setting of tall grasses reeds and bulrushes, set against a watercolour painted interior, enclosed within an ebonised unusual two-glass display case, 58.5cm by 23cm by 83.5cm, bearing handwritten data label to interior - Heron ♀, imm, 12 Oct 1961, Guyhirne, Cambs, Mounted by James Harrison.
Sold for £350
Estimated at £250 - £350
Auction: The James Harrison Collection of Birds, 20th May, 2022
The James Harrison Collection comprises over 200 lots of cased and freemount birds dating from the late Victorian era to the middle of the 20th century. The collection includes rare and unusual examples, such as a passenger pigeon and a kiwi, as well as mounts by the likes of Rowland Ward, James Gardner, Charles Kirk and George Bristow.
James Maurice Harrison (1892-1971) was an ornithologist and one of the last great bird collectors, who gathered large numbers of specimens to study moult patterns, distribution, geographical and colour variation within and between species. A GP by profession, Harrison filled his family home and Doctor's Surgery, Bowerwood House in Kent, with his extraordinary collection.
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