Summers Place Auctions to sell Ralfe Whistler’s famous Dodo Collection

Ralfe Whistler (1930-2023) was a British naturalist whose father Hugh (1889-1943) was an ornithologist and collected 70,000 specimens of Indian birds. Ralfe was brought up surrounded by an extensive collection of stuffed birds, which were later donated to the Natural History Museum. Hugh had been given the first bones of a Dodo by the founder of the Hastings Museum, Thomas Parkin, to encourage his
interest in natural history. The Dodo bones were passed on to Ralfe after his father’s death and sparked an interest in the “funny looking” bird and resulted in a fascinating collection of all things Dodo! The collection is now coming up for auctionat Summers Place Auctions on Tuesday, 24th September.

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Summers Place Auctions to sell the Eclectic Flower Pot Inn Taxidermy Collection

Summers Place Auctions will hold its regular Evolution Auction on 22 November
2022.
This year, the sale will include the eclectic collection of taxidermy from the
well-known Flower Pot pub in Henley-on-Thames. The collection had been
assembled by the landlord in the late 80s and 90s, but he has now retired and is
selling his famous collection. Due to its close location to the Thames, it is no surprise
that many of the 88 lots are indeed a wide variety of fish, but other local animals are
also represented. Click here for further details

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