17th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST

Natural History & Taxidermy

 
  Lot 62
 

62

Taxidermy: A Very Rare Hirola or Hunter's Hartebeest (Beatragus hunteri), circa 1960, by J.F. Hansen, Taxidermy, Studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, a high quality adult male shoulder mount looking straight ahead, right horn 66cm (26"), left horn 65.5cm (25¾"), tip to tip 20cm (8"), from the wall 52cm (20½"), height 109cm (43"), taxidermist's impressed trade stamp to verso. The Hirola, also called the Hunter's hartebeest or Hunter's antelope, is a critically endangered antelope species found as of now, only in Kenya along the border of Somalia. The global hirola population is estimated at 300–500 animals and there are none in captivity. Despite being one of the rarest antelopes, conservation measures for the antelope have so far been marginal. The Arawale National Reserve was created in 1973 as a small sanctuary for them, but has been left unmaintained since the 1980s. In 2005, four local communities in the Ijara district, in collaboration with Terra nuova, established the Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy. As of 2014, a 23 km2 predator-proof fenced sanctuary has been constructed at Ishaqbini and a founding population of 48 hirola is breeding well within the sanctuary.

Sold for £3,000
Estimated at £3,000 - £4,000


 

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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