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).
Lot 121 - Taxidermy: A Cased Ural Owl (Strix uralensis),...
Sold for £1,600
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500
Lot 128 - Taxidermy: Magnificent Rifle Bird (Ptiloris...
Sold for £2,200
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Lot 150 - Taxidermy: A Cased Display of Exotic Tropical...
Sold for £1,200
Estimated at £1,200 - £1,800
Lot 151 - Taxidermy: A Large Cased Resplendent Quetzal...
Sold for £4,000
Estimated at £4,000 - £6,000
Lot 167 - Skeletons/Anatomy: A Cased Southern Tamandua...
Sold for £1,200
Estimated at £1,200 - £1,800
Lot 180 - Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Gharial Crocodile...
Sold for £2,600
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500