17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Taxidermy: Central Oribi (Ourebia hastata), dated 1902, White Nile, an adult male neck mount with head turning sharply to the right, glass eyes, right horn 10.5cm, left horn 11cm, tip to tip 4.5cm, from the wall 20cm, height 38.5cm, mounted upon a shaped oak shield, with ivorine plaque - "Oribi, White Nile, E.N.B, 1902"
Sold for £150
Estimated at £120 - £180
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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