And so good he labelled it twice!
Every so often a spectacular case of taxidermy comes up for sale, this is such an example.
Alfred Thomas trained at Williams of Dublin and later set up his own taxidermy workshops in Gloucester around the turn of the 19th Century, sometime after the first world war he moved to Cardiff as taxidermist to the national museum of Wales. His cases rarely turn up for sale, but when they do they are often spectacular and courageous examples of the art. This is no exception.
It is interesting to note that this case contains two signed shells, the one in the right corner (dated Sept 1st 1902, the other in the left corner, both giving his address as ‘9 College Street Gloucester’ making this one of his earliest cases in his own right.
88cm High x 68cm Wide x 29.5cm Deep.
Alfred Thomas’s taxidermy shop premises at ‘9 College Street’ still stands today, a beautiful black and white half-timbered building’ situated off Westgate Street. It was in 1894
...that Beatrix Potter visited the tailors shop at number 45 Westgate street, and based her famous book “The tailor of Gloucester” which was published in 1903. Today on the next street at ‘9 College Court’ is Beatrix Potter’s ‘The house of the tailor of Gloucester Museum’.
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Internal Reference: 26777
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1204711
Dateline of this antique is 1900
Height is 88cm (34.6inches)Width is 68cm (26.8inches)Depth is 29.5cm (11.6inches)
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