A Cased Taxidermy Little Auk c.1900 sub-Antiques and with fixing spikes to

and with fixing spikes to their rears for wall attachment

which only suffers from some small digit losses

the body of work busy with figures

The chair also has some similarities to a cock-fighting chair but the back isn’t quite narrow enough

The stretcher stamped J Jones Liner is referring to John Jones (1842/3-c

A Cased Taxidermy Little Auk c.1900 sub-Antiques and with fixing spikes toOrigin: 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