17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: An Erythristic European Badger Mask (Meles meles), dated 1937, by Bill Cox, Taxidermy, 36 Manchester Street, Liverpool, an adult Badger mask with mouth agape in defensive pose, with head turning to the left, mounted upon a shaped oak shield, 23.5cm from the wall, with applied ivorine plaque - "Chery Hill, November 1937", bearing taxidermist's full paper trade label to verso. The erythristic badger has mainly sandy or gingery colour hair on the back and sides and the hair on the underbelly can be a shade of red. The eyes will normally be light brown in colour but in some cases they may have a reddish appearance
Sold for £220
Estimated at £150 - £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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