A Taxidermy Teal Hung as Dead Game, Mounted on a Board c.1960 sub-Antiques Having an all over antique

Having an all over antique wash with stylized flowers and palmettes in ivory

Highly geometrical and typical of its type

head and rest of the torso

the small circular tray supported by a stained and painted pedestal in the form of a negro serving boy in livery with applied buttons on a moulded rectangular platform plinth base

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A Taxidermy Teal Hung as Dead Game, Mounted on a Board c.1960 sub-Antiques Having an all over antiqueOrigin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 70 Depth: 3 inches (at maximum) Width: 7 inches (the board) Height: 17 inches (the board) The Bird: 12 inches The stuffed and mounted teal hung as dead game, on a board, bearing "Game Bird Collection" label No. 239 survives from the third quarter of the twentieth century. No 239 was no ordinary teal, but a lonely duckling grown up to become one man's constant companion.