A Fine 20thC Dome Cased Taxidermy Specimen of a Crimson Rosella sub-Religion & Relics Width: 8 inches

Width: 8 inches

The late nineteenth century wild boar (Sus scrofa cristatus) tusks hunted in Ceylon in 1886 and later mounted in the Edwardian period in silver and hallmarked for Horton & Allday

A folding screen was often decorated with beautiful art

and eyes (lacking rod)

with a beautiful mellow patination to both ivory and bone

A Fine 20thC Dome Cased Taxidermy Specimen of a Crimson Rosella sub-Religion & Relics Width: 8 inchesOrigin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 80 Height: 18 inches (the whole) Base Diameter: 9. 5 inches The well preserved and mounted crimson rosella (Platycercus Elegans) perched on a naturalistic outcrop under a good quality late Victorian glass dome and raised on an ebonised plinth socle base with ruby red twist bordering survives in very good overall condition from middle of the twentieth century. They said