13th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Natural History & Taxidermy
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Animal Furniture: A Grévy's Zebra Hide Dressing Screen (Equus grevyi), circa 1912, attributed to Rowland Ward Ltd, 167 Piccadilly, London, a two panel dressing screen, each panel fitted with Zebra hide panel, backed onto later green felt material, mounted upon a cast iron frame, width 138cm, height 172cm
£200 - £300
Buyer's premium: 24.00%
in need of restoration, right side metal frame support broken to the top curved section, various holes, hide loose at the bottom of the right panel, splits on right panel at the top, see images. This is the hide of the shoulder mount included in this auction Lot 29
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Auction: Natural History & Taxidermy, 13th Nov, 2024
The November Natural History and Taxidermy Sale will offer a varied range of antique and good modern taxidermy, with examples by leading names such as Rowland Ward, Peter Spicer, Van Ingen & Van Ingen and more.
The sale will also feature two good private collections: the first being a sixty-lot private collection of bird and animal specimens including many by John Burton, Natural Craft Taxidermy, Gloucestershire; the second is the thirty-five-lot Robert Chinnery Collection. Chinnery is a well-known collector and dealer in taxidermy, and he has widely researched and authored books on the subject.
Also on offer will be four lots by Walter Potter of Bramber, Sussex, which were once included in Bonhams' 2003 auction of The Contents of Mr Potter's Museum of Curiosities held at Jamaica Inn, Cornwall. The auction comprised of 613 Lots of the interesting and World-famous Mr Walter Potter’s collection, previously housed within his very own museum at Bramber, Sussex.
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