17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest (Connochaetes albojubatus), dated 1920, Kafue, Zambia, by Rowland Ward Ltd, "The Jungle", 167 Piccadilly, London, a high quality adult female neck mount looking straight ahead, glass eyes, widest span 60cm, tip to tip 41.5cm, from the wall 66cm, height 82cm, mounted upon a trademark shield, with ivorine plaque - "Wildebeest, Kafue, 1920", full paper trade label and care label to verso, including original metal game tags
Sold for £450
Estimated at £350 - £450
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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