20th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

The James Harrison Collection of Birds

 
  Lot 62
 

62

Taxidermy: A Cased Diorama of Canary Island Birds, dated 1890, by Henry James Burton, 191 Wardour Street, London, to include - Canary Island Finch, Palma Chaffinch, Common Bunting, all mounted upon small branches amidst a natural setting of ferns, grasses and fauna, above pebbled groundwork below, set against a watercolour painted evening sky back drop, enclosed within a typical period ebonised three-glass display case, 27cm by 14cm by 37.5cm, bearing label to interior and verso - Canary Islands, Canary Finch, Palma Chaffinch, and Common Bunting, shot in the Canary Islands, by T. Parkin, Spring of 1890

Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £200


 

Auction: The James Harrison Collection of Birds, 20th May, 2022

The James Harrison Collection comprises over 200 lots of cased and freemount birds dating from the late Victorian era to the middle of the 20th century. The collection includes rare and unusual examples, such as a passenger pigeon and a kiwi, as well as mounts by the likes of Rowland Ward, James Gardner, Charles Kirk and George Bristow. 

James Maurice Harrison (1892-1971) was an ornithologist and one of the last great bird collectors, who gathered large numbers of specimens to study moult patterns, distribution, geographical and colour variation within and between species. A GP by profession, Harrison filled his family home and Doctor's Surgery, Bowerwood House in Kent, with his extraordinary collection. 

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