LUMINOUS Emerald Throat ANTIQUE TAXIDERMY HUMMINGBIRD GOULD collection?

LUMINOUS Emerald Throat ANTIQUE TAXIDERMY HUMMINGBIRD GOULD collection? (image 1/2)
LUMINOUS Emerald Throat ANTIQUE TAXIDERMY HUMMINGBIRD GOULD collection? (image 2/2)
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ANTIQUE: Luminous Emerald Green Throat & Underside Hummingbird Dappled with Copper on Back This beautiful high Victorian taxidermy piece came to me from a dealer with other pieces said to have survived from the John Gould collections. Unfortunately there is no surviving documentation to that claim. Please view the photos and you will see the likeness displayed in John Gould's art. Photos #1,#2 are of the actual bird at auction here on EBay. Throat and belly are luminous emerald green. Back and tail feathers gray and copper. I will leave it up to you, dear buyer, to identify the species. This sweet little humming bird is perched on a branch fragment and will be shipped with great care world-wide. Photo #3 Wood-engraved portrait of Gould and two views (interior and exterior) of his hummingbird pavilion, shown in the Illustrated London News , 12 June 1852, p. 457. The hummingbirds were especially close to Gould's heart. He himself owned a remarkable collection of these jewel-like creatures which he displayed in a pavilion in the London Zoological Gardens during the Great Exhibition of 1851. The technical problems of capturing the luminescense were solved by Gould with the use of gold dust in his paint. Photo #4 Pencil drawing by John Gould of his hummingbird pavilion now at the London Zoo, with the cases he designed for exhibiting read more
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