8th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Taxidermy: A European Red Fox Mask (Vulpes vulpes), dated 1962, by Edward Gerrard & Sons, Taxidermists, 61 College Place, Camden Town, London, an adult head mount looking straight ahead, mouth agape, glass eyes, from the wall 21cm, mounted upon a trade mark shaped oak shield, bearing applied chrome data plaque - "W.P.H, East Carlton, 27-10-62", taxidermist's full paper trade label to verso
Sold for £130
Estimated at £120 - £180
Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 8th Sep, 2023
A very rare Victorian cased pair of extinct New Zealand Huia leads the Natural History and Taxidermy Sale. The superb quality male and female huia full mounts were mounted by James E. Whiting, Naturalist, of 19 Heath Street, Hampstead, and are presented perched on a branch and surrounded by hummingbirds, rocks and foliage.
Also on offer in the sale are a Monumental Late Victorian Cased Display of Tropical Birds Native to South America & South East Asia & Oceana, circa 1870-1900 (estimate: £8,000-12,000), an impressive large late Victorian cased White Pelican and White Ibis mounted in 1879 by James Gardiner (estimate: £3,000-5,000), a fine cased diorama of Eurasian Bullfinches by T.E. Gunn, Naturalist of Norwich (estimate: £700-900), an early 20th century Giant Clam Shell (estimate: £500-700), and a modern re-creation of a Toco Toucan by the renowned taxidermist Carl Church of Pickering, North Yorkshire (estimate: £1,500-2,500).
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