17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Cased Brown Trout (Salmo trutta), dated 1911, by W. Barnes, Taxidermy, 30 Lesley Street, Barnsbury, London, a skin mount preserved within a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a sandy river bed, mounted against a pale blue painted back drop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 57cm by 15.5cm by 31.5cm, hand written paper legend to interior upper left -"TROUT, Taken by Mr. W.C. Sizer, at Rickmansworth, June 6 1911, Wgt 2lbs 8.ozs", taxidermist's paper trade label to interior upper right
Sold for £220
Estimated at £250 - £350
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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