A Late 19thC Taxidermy Study of a Cormorant & Redshank antiques possibly originally in a school

possibly originally in a school or large institution due to their dimensions

save the weighted base

The umbrella is in remarkably good condition for its age

Pork Cumberlands sir

charting not only the Percy family’s history over an entire millennium

A Late 19thC Taxidermy Study of a Cormorant & Redshank antiques possibly originally in a schoolOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1895 1910 The Case: Depth: 8. 5 Width: 19. 75 Height: 22 The duo of seabirds, one a cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae) the other a redshank (Tringa totanus) within a sparse setting of a coastal rocky outcrop set upon a buff paper background, the whole housed in a generously sized ebonised display case surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth century in good overall