The great auk : a record of sales of birds and eggs by public auction in Great Britain, 1806-1910 : with historical and descriptive notes ... / by Thomas Parkin.

  • Parkin, Thomas, 1845-
Date:
1911
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Credit: The great auk : a record of sales of birds and eggs by public auction in Great Britain, 1806-1910 : with historical and descriptive notes ... / by Thomas Parkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    from Theodore Schultz, in 1857, he then residing at Neuhaldensleben, Saxony, (a short description of which appears in ‘ Cabanis,’January, 1860). Schultz purchased it from a person of the same name then residing at Leipzig. He received it with six others from Iceland.” This egg is now in the collection of Mr, Hugh Gurney Barclay, of Colney Hall, Norwich, EGG VIII. (Sale number twenty-two.) An egg of the Great Auk, on May 19th, 1904. Sale catalogue No. 10,825. Egg VIII. - “ Lot A. An Egg of the Great Auk.” Bought in for - - - - - - - - £200 O O This egg the property of Mr. Heatley Noble, of Temple Combe, Henley-on-Thames, was put up for auction at Stevens’ on April 27th, 1869. As the historical description of the egg given in the above catalogue of the first portion of Mr. Heatley Noble’s collection had some slight errors in it, subsequently corrected at the sale of the final portion of the collection on March 16th, 1905, I have thought it better to defer recording its history until the latter sale. EGG VIII. (Sale number twenty-three.) An egg of the Great Auk, on March 16th, 1905. Described in the sale catalogue No. 10,964 as “ a fine specimen of the Great Auk’s egg.” Egg VIII. - “Lot A. GREAT AUK’S EGG. This egg was acquired by the late Mr. A. D. Bartlett from either Dunn or Mr. Hoy, about 1838, It was sold by him in 1842 to Mr. E. Maude for £2, and repurchased in or about 1851 ; after which it was sold to Dr. Nathaniel Troughton in 1852, for £5 (with a bird for £28) ; on April 27th [1869] Dr. Troughton’s collection was sold at Stevens* Auction Rooms, and the egg was bought by the second Lord Garvagh for £64, Lot 253. After Lord Garvagh’s death in 1871, the egg passed into the possession of the Dowager