17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Display of South American Tropical Birds, circa 1870-1900, a typical high-quality colourful display of ten various tropical birds, to include - Brazilian tanager, Green-headed tanager, Paradise tanager, Pompadour cotinga, Red-legged honeycreeper, Red avadavat, Green-crowned plovercrest hummingbird, Ruby-topaz hummingbird, two Long-billed hermit hummingbirds, all mounted upon and around a centrally positioned branch, enclosed beneath a period oval glass dome, supported on the original ebonised base, raised on four squat feet, 33.5cm by 21cm by 57cm
Sold for £700
Estimated at £600 - £800
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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