Butterflies, male and female of each species, comprising Ornithoptera Priamus Poseidon and Troides Amphrysus Amphrysus, mounted in mahogany effect glazed frames with description and gender, overall 29.5cm by 23cm £120 - 150
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Nguni Bull, modern, shoulder mount, turning slightly to sinister, horns 76cm tip to tip, 103cm from the wall £1500 - 2500
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A Large Framed Collection of Mainly Foreign Butterflies, Moths and Insects, probably mounted circa 1950, including Papilio horishanus s.blomfildia (Peru), m.Didius (Peru) etc, and five other foreign butterflies, the remaining are British moths and butterflies without data, in decorative moulded plaster and wood frame, overall 68cm by 57.5cm £60 - 100
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A Mahogany Glazed Drawer, containing Lepidoptera display, circa 1970's/80's, including Marsh Fritillary, bred Surrey 1985, Continental Large Blue (1), Large Copper and Apollo (no data), Clouded Yellow, Brimstone, Silver Washed Fritillary, Painted Lady, Meadow Brown, Wall, Skipper (4), and Two Other Drawers, including examples of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera etc and large British moths, each 34cm by 46cm £70 - 100
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Two Wood Storage Boxes containing Diverse Moths £40 - 60
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Burchell's Zebra (Equus burchelli), flat-back head mount, 56cm long, 25cm from the wall £300 - 400
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Steenbok (Raphicerus campestris), circa 2010, horns on cut upper skull, on wood shield, overall length of skull 13.5cm; Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), set of mounted tusks on shield; and A Pair of Antelope Feet and Hooves, copper mounts, as bookends, 25cm high (3) £50 - 80
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A Late Victorian Montage of Butterflies, in a glazed circular case, including thirty-seven Red Admirals, the central boss containing thirty faded Small Coppers, a similar number of faded Common Blues within a circle of eight kite butterflies including four Kite Swallowtails, 41cm diameter £80 - 120
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Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), Boramo, Somaliland, circa 1930, by Edward Gerrard & Sons, horns on cut frontlet, right horn 106cm, left horn 107cm, on original oak shield with gilt title and vestiges of taxidermist's label verso; and Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), antlers on cut frontlet, 12 points (6+6), tip to tip 52.5cm (2) £70 - 100
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A Case of Twenty-Two English Butterflies, including: Red Admiral (x3), Peacock (x2), Comma (x5), Sibyls or Wood-Admirals (x7), Camberwell Beauty (x1), Purple Emperor (x4) - ♂ no data (1920's), ♂ Whiteparish, Wilts,24-7-79, ♀ Plaistow, Surrey 12-7-76P A Martin, ♀ ♀P W Cribb, Bred Odiham, Hants 17-7-85, all with British data, and all contained in a glazed cabinet, 29.5cm by 38cm £70 - 100
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A Case of British Butterflies, including Hesperidae family, and Lycaenidae, all pre-1981, with British data, in stained wood case, 25cm by 41cm £70 - 100
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A Case of British Butterflies, including Nymphalidae family (Vanessids), common British, including Peacock, Comma, Painted Lady, Small Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral, including one Blind Peacock and one Semiichnusoides Pronin, all pre-1981, with British data, in stained wood case £70 - 100
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Cock Pheasant, two full mounts, on stump and driftwood respectively; Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus), late 20th century, head mount, on wood shield; and Jay, two full mounts (5) £60 - 100
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Oryx (Oryx beisa), circa 1900, horns on frontlets, two sets (with skin), example 1: right horn 75cm, left horn 74cm, example 2: right horn 80.5cm, left horn 81.5cm £100 - 150The following 15 lots are from a private family museum, and the collection was initially formed circa 1900, with a later corpus of trophies and specimens added in the 1930s and early 1940s. From the records, many specimens were prepared by Rowland Ward, and indeed maintenance of the trophies was carried out by Rowland Ward
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Hunter's Hartebeest (Damiliscus hunteri), Garissa, Kenya 1941, shoulder mount, right horn 51cm, left horn 50.5cm, on period teak wall shield numbered 23, 57cm from the wallNow critically endangered, perhaps less than 1,200 now remain from a population estimate of 14,000 in the 1970s £2000 - 3000
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Leopard (Panthera pardus), Gorongosa, Portuguese East Africa, September 1941, numbered 371, head mount, with forward gaze, on ebonised teakwood shield, 40cm from the wall £700 - 1000
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Lichtenstein's Hartebeest (Alcelaphus lichtensteinii), circa 1940, head mount, on ebonised hardwood shield, 58.5cm high (a/f); and Another, slightly smaller, 54.5cm from the wall (a/f) £100 - 200
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Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibious), Beira, Portuguese East Africa, September 1941, shoulder mount, forward facing, with closed mouth, on ebonised hardwood shield, 120cm from the wall £2000 - 3000
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Lion (Panthera leo), early 20th century, male, rug with head mount, the head with open jaw and fierce expression, backed onto blue felt with undulating cut border, in turn backed onto hessian cloth, 295cm nose to tail, 215cm across forelimbs £500 - 700
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Ground Pangolin (Manis temminckii), circa 1900, carapace on tanned leather inner skin, 85cm long (a/f) £300 - 500
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Tuatara Lizard (Sphenodon punctatus), New Zealand, early 20th century, by Rowland Ward, on a naturalistic mossy base within a five-glass table cabinet, underneath with the Impala head oval paper label of Rowland Ward, Piccadilly, London, the case 47cm by 23cm by 23cm £200 - 300
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Tiger (Panthera tigris), circa 1910, skin rug with head mount, the head with fierce open jaw pose, 290cm long nose to tail, 202cm across forelimbs (a/f) £300 - 500
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Duck-Billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), Australia 1952, full mount, upon its belly with rear legs raised, on moss effect mound on ebonised plinth, within a five-glass table cabinet with teakwood plinth base, the cabinet 50cm by 26cm by 31.5cm £450 - 650
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Medium Sized Lizard, circa 1930, by J R Ivy, Taxidermist, Pretoria, upon a hardwood plinth with concave moulded edge, and taxidermist's metal plaque, the lizard 90cm long (straight measured), the plinth 113.5cm by 38cm by 15cm £200 - 300
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Striped Marlin (Tetrapturus audax), Bay of Islands, New Zealand 1952, bill, on mounted head, 197lbs, 147cm high (a/f) £200 - 300
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Sea Leopard (Hydrurga leptonyx), New Zealand, circa 1952, head mount, jaw open, 53cm from the wall £200 - 300
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Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), circa 1930, by J R Ivy Ltd, High Art Taxidermists, Pretoria, jaw open, 155cm long (straight measured), on a sanded hessian and wood base with metal title plaque £400 - 600
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Grey Partridge (Ortygornis ponticeriana), Sangi, Sind, December 25th 1892, by Rowland Ward, Piccadilly, full mount, standing near corn ears on a rustic ground, in a five-glass table cabinet with original zinc title with paper label (poor condition), 32.5cm high; Two Others, attributed to Rowland Ward, one a pair of Chuker Partridge (Alectoris chukar), Kashmir, November 3rd 1893, and two similar birds, Kashmir, 1894, each case 43cm high (poor condition); and A Kestrel-type Hawk, circa 1900, in a single glass case (poor state) (4) £50 - 80
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A Miscellaneous Collection of Red Deer and Sambar Antlers on Upper Skulls/ Frontlets; A Blackbuck Horns on Upper Skull; and the Skulls, of Red Deer, Pony, Sheep, Coyote, Dog(?) etc (generally poor condition) £60 - 100
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Four Modern Glazed Wall Cases, containing ten specimens of tropical butterflies, originally from Taiwan, including three Swallowtails, South American Morpho, three Heliconids and two Orange Tips, the largest 41cm by 21cm £50 - 80
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Four Modern Glazed Wall Cases, containing nine specimens of tropical butterflies, including two (male and female) Rajah Brook's Birdwings and three Swallowtails, the largest 33cm by 48cm £50 - 80
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A Mahogany Effect Eight Drawer Specimen Cabinet, seven drawers of which contain diverse tropical butterflies (some are concoctions), 51.5cm wide £150 - 250
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Red Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus), modern, shoulder mount, 69cm from the wall £250 - 350
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Cape Buffalo (Synceros caffer caffer), 20th century, shoulder mount, 105cm from the wall £300 - 500
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Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), 20th century, shoulder mount, right horn 97cm (straight measured), left horn 100cm £300 - 500
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Red Lechwe (Kobus leche), 20th century, shoulder mount, 53cm from the wall £180 - 250
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Impala (Aepyceros melampus), 20th century, shoulder mount, 52cm from the wall £120 - 180
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Blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi), Rowland Ward, circa 1920, horns on frontlet, on original oak shield with The Jungle label verso and gouged RW mark, painted number 6770 £50 - 80
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F Smithson FGS: Twenty-Two Assorted Small Boxes, containing diverse mineral specimens, on slides and in small containers, the majority with data, together with a gilt brass and mahogany specimen table, two preparation material boxes, the Frank Smithson record books detailing locations of samples, a specimen microscope by Cooke, Troughton & Simms Ltd, York, England, cased, and one volume The Published Works of Frank Smithson B.Sc.PH.B, also one volume of Sedimentary Petrography by Henry B Miller, from the library of Frank Smithson (nb Smithson provided detrital mineral slides for this author and for the publishers, see pr.VII & page 2 of adverts) (qty) £200 - 300
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Two Similar Cabinets, by Griffin & George Ltd, London, one example containing petrological specimens (the majority of the drawers filled), including some polished ore samples for reflected light microsophy, each cabinet 40.5cm wide, 47cm high £80 - 120
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A Small Mahogany-Type Glazed Cabinet of Specimen Drawers, containing a collection of Victorian and later natural history biological slides, including numerous examples relating to "vipers poison fang", others for "parasite of stork", "tongue of fox" and "hedgehog", "hoof of zebra" (some with decoratively papered detail), and also small rat specimens, including "hair of sea mouse", "wing bone of albatross", "sloth", "hair of otter" etc, cabinet 40cm wide, 47.5cm high £60 - 100
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A Collection of Seventy-Three Late 19th Century Prepared Biological Slides, the majority labelled and inscribed in ink, including pigment from frogs' skin in glycerine, and mainly circa 1878 (one is dated 1878), contained in the original red cloth fitted cases, 15.5cm wide £50 - 100
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Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), modern, head mount, with unusual third horn developing between the eyes £150 - 250
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Twelve Foreign Butterflies, in glazed specimen box (with hook for suspension), 40.5cm by 30.5cm; and An Empty Example (2) £30 - 40
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Auroch (Bos primigenius), Rhine Gravel Terraces, Pleistocene, Bad Dürkheim, Rheiner-Pfalz, leg bone, 27cm longThis leg bone may have been broken by man for the marrow, as the damage on the bone is not thought to be caused by the gnawing of the animal. £150 - 250
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Mammoth Tusk Section, Rhine Gravel Terraces, Pleistocene, Bad Dürkheim, Rheiner-Pfalz, 128cm long, 9cm diameter (at the open end) £300 - 500
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Mammoth Tusk Section, Rhine Gravel Terraces, Pleistocene, Bad Dürkheim, Rheiner-Pfalz, 72cm long, 7.2cm diameter (at the open end) £120 - 180
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Ammonites (Harpoceras falciferum) and (Dactylioceras sp.), Upper Toarcian, Lower Jurassic, from Posidonienschiefer - the famous oil shales of Holzmaden, Swabian Alb S.W. Germany, 47.5cm by 48.5cm £100 - 150
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Mammoth (Mammuthus primagenus), Rhine Gravel Terraces, Pleistocene, Bad Dürkheim, Rheiner-Pfalz, lower jaw of juvenile, 43cm wide, 29cm deep £500 - 800
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Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus), pre Weichselian Glacial, pre 27,800BC, Steiermark Cave, Styria, Austria, skull, 41cm long, 20cm high £1500 - 2000
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