17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: European Barn Owl (Tyto alba), dated 2024, by A.J. Armitstead, Taxidermist & Naturalist, Darlington, Co Durham, a high quality full mount adult with head turning to the left, perched atop a short tree stump, above frozen winter groundwork below, enclosed beneath a period oval glass dome, with original ebonised base, raised on four pedestal feet, 28cm by 18cm by 51cm, signed and dated to tree stump, taxidermist's small paper trade label to interior groundwork
with CITES article 10 (non transferable) licence no. 602117/01
Sold for £280
Estimated at £300 - £400
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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