17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST

Natural History & Taxidermy

 
  Lot 253
 

253

Taxidermy: A Cased Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia), circa early 20th century, a full mount adult in stooped pose with wings slightly open and raised, perched upon a small branch, issuing from soil covered groundwork, enclosed within a Rowland Ward style five-glass table display case, 23cm by 16.5cm by 31cm, bearing spurious Rowland Ward button trade label to interior groundwork.

The Regent Honeyeater is one of the rarest birds in the World, native to Southeastern Australia, now critically endangered in the wild, the 2019-2020 wild fires in Australia only further pushed this species to the edge of extinction, numbered birds believed to be left in the wild now feared to be around 250, a 2018 study ranked it seventh in a list of Australian birds most likely to go extinct

Not Sold

 

The bird within although in my opinion period in date and original, i feel the case this bird is mounted within is incorrect, the bird i feel is not mounted by Rowland Ward.

 


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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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