Curios

Origin: AfricanPeriod: Mid/Late Nineteenth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1870Height: 5.5 inches (at maximum)Width: 9.5 inches (at maximum)Length: 14 inches (at maximum)The large cranium of an African male lion (Panthera Leo) skull with deep eye sockets and nasal cavities, surviving from the latter half of the nineteenth...

Origin: FrenchPeriod: 3rd RepublicProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1880-1900Height: 9 inchesDepth: 8 inches (all approximate and at maximum)The beautiful wax-work modelled head, in painted translucent wax with implanted human hair and glass eyes survives from late nineteenth century France.Condition wise the head is in very good order...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: UnknownDate: c.1890Base Diameter: 3.5 inchesHeight: 9 inchesOf fluted design, with plain inset banner shaped labels the five green glass apothecary bottles with clear cut glass square stoppers and mark ‘W’ to bases.All five bottles are in superb condition...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1880Height: 25.5” (the whole)The Base: 13.5” Wide x 9” DeepThe stuffed and mounted White or Umbrella Cockatoo, Cacatua alba, in good overall condition, perched amidst a well executed naturalistic setting with butterflies, flora and fauna, under a good quality...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1870-80Height: 5”Width: 2.5” Base Diameter: 1.5” (all at extremities)The good quality dark patinated cast iron novelty desk or paperweight, finely modelled as a dainty female hand to a bejewelled lace cuff, having a cabochon ring to the index finger...

Origin: Mid Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1950-70Height: 17 inchesWidth: 8 inchesDepth: 14 inches (all at maximum)Offering Horace the fox, his head and forequarters wonderfully well preserved and in excellent condition, snarling open mounted as if appearing through a wall.Horace was the top British athlete of...

Origin: AmericanPeriod: Mid/Late Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1960-80Depth: 25”Height: 31”Width: 23” (all at extremities, eg horns & hair)The massive American bison (Bison bison) head and neck mount, also commonly known as the American buffalo, having a shaggy, long, dark brown winter coat and short curved...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1990 Mask: 8 inches high x 5 inches wide (all at maximum)The white metal framed gem set spider web effect butterfly shaped mask, beset with a plethora of white paste stones, with smaller stylised butterfly and skull motifs...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early/Mid Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1930-50Height: 17.5 inches (the whole)Height: 14.5 inches (mount)Base Width: 14 inchesThe stuffed and mounted magpie perched on a naturalistic rocky outcrop under a good quality Victorian glass dome and raised on an ebonised plinth socle base survives preserved...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Mid Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1950-80Height: 14 inches (the whole)Base Diameter: 8.75 inchesThe well preserved and mounted pair of rainbow lorikeets (Race Moluccanus) perched on a naturalistic outcrop under a good quality late Victorian glass dome and raised on an ebonised plinth socle...

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late Nineteenth / Early Twentieth CenturyProvenance: UnknownDate: c.1900Height: 13 inches (the whole)Width: 18 inches (horns) or 23.5 inches (mount)Depth: 5.5 inches (the whole)The horns with skullcap on pine mount are in good condition with no hair drop and only tiny areas of...