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 29 - Taxidermy: A Rare Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi),...
Sold for £1,450
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500
Lot 80 - Taxidermy: A Cased European Eagle Owl (Bubo...
Sold for £1,300
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500