The cutouts in the background are other actual displays completed here
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£675
White Tailed Sea Eagle - Erne- Haliaeetus albicilla
£1555
Harlequin , Bufflehead, Hooded Merganser and Smew ducks with Red Breased Goose
British Listed Rarities - £2375
Although a non member myself I can appreciate pleasing work when I see it.
These 3 cases by different members - all taken in part exchange!
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Garden Warbler - £345 - Wagtail £245
Exquisite Redwings and Thrush - £1495
Rather nice with a placing in the World Championships- just an awkward shape for me!
20 Guild Mags' , earliest is number 6 - £155 post free
Note: only 34? have been produced!
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Matched , labeled Sabines and Leucistic Snipe cases - £495- must go together
One loose wing feather on the inside wing on the leucistic bird - bearable I should think as these displays were done pre 1880!
Quality octagonal mahogany cases - cabinet maker built
Any similiarity between this image and the author - was intentional!
Full life history case of Accipiter nisus - £645
Cornish Rarities - recased in mahogany bowfront case
ANIMAL Fakes, Frauds and Hoodwinks
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It is likely that every taxidermist has at sometime or another produced a novelty item of some kind. Genuine victorian examples have been ammassed in a Scottish museum.
Siberian Flying Pollack - Articus coldendus
Real skin mount fish in a quality mahogany bowfront - UNIQUE
If a certain Mr Damien Hirst had made this it would sell easily for a million! - I require £555
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£245
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Little Tern group. -see "A History of British Taxidermy" by Frost 1987 - £1695
Depiction in the book added to its value and made this a rather expensive but desireable purchase.
Probably the rarest bird in this collection and believed almost extinct in Europe (Palmer 2000)
Two specimens taken in Oxford 1840s, a further two in Huddesfield ,1860s, one of which ended up in the celebrated Calke Abbey collection which was again sold in 1925 for £3.10s
This is indeed a rare item and even more so in an original labeled case
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4 Golden Oriole, Quail and Turtle Dove - unlabeled-loose glass £245
Yellow Billed Cuckoo, American Robin and Audubons warbler- ALL Britsh Listed. Rowe of Heamoor -
£245
Original Ermine case by John Cooper @Sons- Nice label £225
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Good condition action display - £185....TreePipit case (ex Eton College) - £125
Eagles and Kites by Shaw of Shrewsbury, currently my pride and joy.
Both together - £16,000
A deposit has been received but finalising is too long winded - hence the combined price tag!
James Gardner - G E - £2475
Impressive 1870 provenance to rear of case + catalogue of sale(3 eagles listed!
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