17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Taxidermy: A Cased European Jay (Garrulus glandaris), modern, by Ann & John Burton, Chipping Campden, Gloucester, a high quality full mount adult stood upon soil covered groundwork, enclosed within a five-glass table display case with leaded frame. 37cm by 19cm by 32.5cm, taxidermist's full paper trade label to interior and underside
Sold for £140
Estimated at £100 - £150
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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