17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Antler Furniture: A Late 19th Century Austro-German Antler Mounted Overmantel Mirror, circa 1900, the outer rectangular frame mounted with applied large reindeer and deer antlers, the internal frame decorated with numerous coronets, the central upper section featuring a modelled Roebuck head mount with applied natural antlers, mirror frame size 93cm by 73cm, maximum width 121cm, maximum height 150cm.
Sold for £950
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
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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