TAXIDERMY BENGAL TIGER SKIN, ATTRIBUTED TO THEOBALD BROS OF MYSORE
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
£1,260
Auction: Lots 1 - 328 | 13 November 2024 at 10am
Description
circa 1900-40, with full head mount, glass eyes, with typical snuff brown pinked wool edging
Dimensions
250cm long, 175cm wide
Provenance
Provenance: Known from an entry in the vendor's father's day book that it was bought on 15th March 1968 from George Neilson Antiques Dealers, 12 Great King Street, Edinburgh, for £30.
Footnote
CITES STATUS: Bengal Tiger Panthera tigris - CITES Appendix I - Annex A - Article 10 Exempt as a worked specimen in a finished state before 3 March 1947
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