17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Pair of Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea), dated 1898, a pair of full mount juveniles, one stood upon pebble covered ground work with head turning to the right, the other above in swooping pose with wings outstretched, amidst a natural setting of tall grasses and fauna, set against a wash painted interior, enclosed within a typical period ebonised single-glass table display case, 49cm by 18cm by 38cm, hand written in pencil to verso - "Shot by G. Russell, at ?? 1898"
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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