Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Pair of White-Tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon...
Lot Description:
Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Pair of White-Tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon lepturus), a pair of full mount adults, the male perched above the female on a painted rock ledge, above pebbled and seaweed covered groundwork, set against a painted graduated pink sky back drop, enclosed within a period ebonised three-glass display case, 74cm by 22cm by 53.5cm, bearing glass panel identification to interior front glass ''Birds of the Tropics''.
View it on
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
Lot Description:
Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Pair of White-Tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon lepturus), a pair of full mount adults, the male perched above the female on a painted rock ledge, above pebbled and seaweed covered groundwork, set against a painted graduated pink sky back drop, enclosed within a period ebonised three-glass display case, 74cm by 22cm by 53.5cm, bearing glass panel identification to interior front glass ''Birds of the Tropics''.