17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: A Wall Cased Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola), modern, by Brian Lancaster, Taxidermy, Bedale, Nth Yks, a high quality full mount adult with head turning slightly to the right, perched atop a small submerged stump, amidst a natural setting of dry leaves and ferns, set against a watercolour painted woodland scene back drop, enclosed within a wall hanging wooden framed four-glass display case, 34cm by 12.5cm by 32cm excluding outer frame, taxidermist's full paper trade label to verso
Sold for £200
Estimated at £200 - £300
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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