Six brightly coloured tropical birds arranged amongst realistic groundwork with a delicate water colour backdrop of a tropical landscape with palm trees, that is all so familiar with the finest Gardner cases, complete within an ebonized frame and gilt slip. In untouched and unopened condition, complete with large trade label and original hanging hooks to verso. Taxidermy is extremely hard to find like this today, and yet so typical of what would have hung in the fashionable Victorian parlor, a wonder of the natural world, where the likes would have been unseen before.-------------------This famous taxidermy firm ran for nearly 80 years, and was founded around 1844 by James Gardner, and continued by his son, James Gardner (the trade label to the rear of this case gives the address as “52 High Holborn &29, London” and states “late 426 Oxford Street London”. The firm held Royal Warrants for Her Majesty Queen Victoria, The Royal Families of England and France plus many more notable...