A Cased Taxidermy Little Auk c.1900 sub-Antiques ebony and ivory painted hardwood

ebony and ivory painted hardwood masks in the grotesque style with expressive overtly stylised faces and accentuated features

(Big Bear Rescue)

for buzzards are very territorial

the chair has an outstanding rich and colourful patina

which only suffers from some small digit losses

A Cased Taxidermy Little Auk c.1900 sub-Antiques ebony and ivory painted hardwoodOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 11. 5Width: 9Depth: 4. 5The preserved little auk (Alle alle), posed upon a naturalistic setting of a rocky outcrop with grasses to a sky blue sky, presented in its original wooden lantern shaped case with sloping top being glazed on three sides, the borders being lined in paper to imitate an exotic wood, the whole surviving from the zeniths of Victorian period England. The