Taxidermy: Magnificent Rifle Bird (Ptiloris magnificus), circa 1865-1880, by George...
Taxidermy: Magnificent Rifle Bird (Ptiloris magnificus), circa 1865-1880, by George Ashmead & Co, Taxidermy, Bishopgate, London, a superb adult male with head raised displaying his colourful chest plumage, with wings slightly open and tail wires below, perched upon a short branch amidst natural ferns and grasses, set above painted groundwork below, re-mounted within a period oval glass dome, supported upon the original ebonised base, 34cm by 20cm by 52cm, (furniture item not included)
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Taxidermy: Magnificent Rifle Bird (Ptiloris magnificus), circa 1865-1880, by George Ashmead & Co, Taxidermy, Bishopgate, London, a superb adult male with head raised displaying his colourful chest plumage, with wings slightly open and tail wires below, perched upon a short branch amidst natural ferns and grasses, set above painted groundwork below, re-mounted within a period oval glass dome, supported upon the original ebonised base, 34cm by 20cm by 52cm, (furniture item not included)
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