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Limpopo 1930

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Tennants Auction – Summer sale, July 22, 2010 – lot 1162. White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), Limpopo Region, circa 1930, by Rowland Ward, horns on original shield, anterior horn 66.5cm, posterior horn 43cm, the oak shield with RW gouged mark (32216-3) and illustration of photographs taken during the 1930 Limpopo hunting expedition. These trophies were shot by the vendor’s great-grandfather who took an annual safari in Africa at that period, and Rowland Ward was commissioned to mount his trophies. The illustration accompanying this horn was taken from original glass plate camera photographs of the trophy animal.

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