TWO TAXIDERMY INDIAN BLACKBUCK HEAD MOUNTS Y
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
£375
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 5 July 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
each mounted to an oak shield with brass plaques, inscribed PRESENTED TO THE DEPOT 91ST. HIGHLANDERS BY MAJOR, W. GURNEY, with paper labels for William Hope, 44 George Street, Edinburgh, 75cm and 72cm long (tip of horns to noses); together with a TAXIDERMY IMPALA HEAD MOUNT, 19th century, also mounted on an oak shield, with paper label for James Gardner, Oxford Street, London, 66cm long (tip of horns to nose) (3)
Footnote
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