17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), circa 1880-1900, a large high quality full mount adult male with head turning slightly to the left, perched atop a large painted faux rock, covered with moss and lichen, enclosed beneath a large period oval glass dome, supported on the original ebonised base, raised on four bun feet, 38cm by 23.5cm by 68cm overall
Sold for £500
Estimated at £350 - £450
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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