Trevor Battye - Spitsbergen Print - Ptarmigan - Framed

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Trevor-Battye Spitserbergen Print of Ptarmigan A beautiful print, professionally mounted and framed. The Frame measures about 15 inches x 18 inches or 38cm x 45cm, the visible portion of the print is about 10.5 inches x 14.25 inches or 26cm x 36cm For those not familiar with this wonderful wildlife artist, a little blurb below........... Aubyn Bernard Rochfort Trevor-Battye, MA , MBOU , FLS , FRGS , FZS (b. 17 July 1855 - 19 December/20 December 1922) was a British traveller, naturalist and writer.He was born at Hever, Kent , where his father, the Reverend William Wilberforce Battye, was Rector. His mother was daughter of Edmund Wakefield Meade-Waldo, resident of Hever Castle .[ 1] The Rev. W.W. Battye was a descendant of Sir John Trevor (1626-1672) and inherited Trevor estates in 1883. Upon his death in 1890 his surviving family took the heraldic arms of Trevor and the surname Trevor-Battye.After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford , in 1887, Aubyn Trevor-Battye travelled widely in North America and Europe, studying ornithology , shooting game and fishing. In 1894 he made an expedition to the Russian island of Kolguyev in the Barents Sea to study its natural history, especially the birds, and the topography (Trevor-Battye 1895). He and his assistant had to make a long unplanned return through northern Russia as winter closed in, an adventure that brought Trevor-Battye to prominence on his return to Britain (Trevor-Battye 1898). He was then invited to join William Martin Conway 's expedition to Spitsbergen in 1896, as their zoologist. Will be carefully packed to foil the postmen's devilish intents......... The boring bits............ Despite everything written below, I actually enjoy selling on e bay........................ it makes money and satisfies the masochistic part of my nature............ Most customers are great, even when things go wrong, as they sometimes will. Our Feedback is good, especially considering that most of the things we sell are delicate breakable vintage items. But now that we can't leave negative feedback for mad buyers, this really is the only way.......... I post daily, unless the car breaks down or we're flooded, or the mice running this computer escape from their little wheel, or I have a terrible hangover from celebrating with Krug Champagne our latest e bay sale, or something. All our prices are in Pounds Sterling, the currency used on our small island. NOT dollars, Moon Tokens or little Glass Beads. We live in a house heated by log fires.......... so, although every fabric based item is freshly laundered before being sent out, if the faint whiff of woodsmoke that seems to cling to everything offends you, please don't bid on these items, I won't refund you 'because it smells of smoke' - you can rinse it through again if you want to............. Yes, I know that sounds stroppy, but its either make this clear at the beginning or lose the will to live............ I always obtain proof of posting, but really cannot be responsible for the post office's whimsical delivery standards , We do offer a recorded delivery service, and would strongly advise that you use it. If you don't, and the item goes missing, I'll send you the proof of posting so that you can make a claim from the post office. If you choose the recorded delivery option and it still goes missing, I'll sort it out myself and refund your money. Sometimes I even just spring for the Recorded Delivery cost myself if I'm really pleased with the price I get for an item........ but don't rely on this. We will only post to ITALY on an INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR service - far to much goes missing otherwise. We will not post to NIGERIA at all, even if you do offer to put the £78,000,000 that you have stolen from your government into my bank account. The post office will not insure delicate items........... the dear of them.......... so we offer a voluntary insurance scheme with all our ... read more

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