17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Cased European Robin (Erithacus rubecula), modern, by David Keningale, Taxidermy, Warwickshire, a superb quality full mount adult Robin with unusual white primary wing feathers, and to the throat, perched upon a small branch above gorse, and painted soil groundwork, set against a wash painted back drop, enclosed within a three-glass green painted table display case, 18cm by 10cm by 26.5cm
Sold for £380
Estimated at £180 - £280
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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