19th century humming birds – £3000 at Summers Place.
Taxidermy, having emerged in a few years from a dusty, rather unseemly subject to a rostrum hot topic, continues to flourish across the country.
In Carlisle, at a one-vendor, country-house clear-out sale, Thomson Roddick (17.5% buyer’s premium) offered a dozen lots, with the highest price coming for a large Victorian or Edwardian example.