8th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: An Anthropomorphic Diorama of Card Playing Crabs, a fictional diorama comprising a pair of card playing crabs, constructed from the limbs and body of a single large crab, seated upon wine corks at a crab shell table playing cards and drinking, set against a grey painted back drop, enclosed within an ebonised single-glass display case, 51cm by 18cm by 36.5cm, inspired by a similar Victorian example featured on page 99 of Voodoo Salon, a book by Errol Fuller (2014).
Sold for £200
Estimated at £200 - £300
Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 8th Sep, 2023
A very rare Victorian cased pair of extinct New Zealand Huia leads the Natural History and Taxidermy Sale. The superb quality male and female huia full mounts were mounted by James E. Whiting, Naturalist, of 19 Heath Street, Hampstead, and are presented perched on a branch and surrounded by hummingbirds, rocks and foliage.
Also on offer in the sale are a Monumental Late Victorian Cased Display of Tropical Birds Native to South America & South East Asia & Oceana, circa 1870-1900 (estimate: £8,000-12,000), an impressive large late Victorian cased White Pelican and White Ibis mounted in 1879 by James Gardiner (estimate: £3,000-5,000), a fine cased diorama of Eurasian Bullfinches by T.E. Gunn, Naturalist of Norwich (estimate: £700-900), an early 20th century Giant Clam Shell (estimate: £500-700), and a modern re-creation of a Toco Toucan by the renowned taxidermist Carl Church of Pickering, North Yorkshire (estimate: £1,500-2,500).
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Thursday 7th September 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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