A Fine Vintage Taxidermy Fallow Deer Buck Head Mount on Hardwood Shield sub-Curios also known as plantation or

also known as plantation or louvre shutters are so called supposedly after Louis XIV’s favourite pastimes

HMS Lawford

The veins and arteries in one of the specimens would have once been double injected blue and red but no colour now remains

The numbers are also characteristically Art Nouveau in style

A Fine Vintage Taxidermy Fallow Deer Buck Head Mount on Hardwood Shield sub-Curios also known as plantation orOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 60 Width: 26 inches (with antlers) Depth: 15. 5 inches (at maximum) Throughout his life, Hardy was known as the quiet one, a wonderful specimen, he remains in fantastic overall condition. Hardy was mounted on a hardwood shield in the middle of the twentieth century when he perished due to natural causes; the only areas of loss now, are to the very tips of the ears.