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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    This egg (No. VIII.), according to Mr. Symington Grieve, was supposed to have been accidentally destroyed. This however was not so, as it again appeared for sale at these auction rooms on May 19th, 1904, when its full history, so far as is known, was recorded in the sale catalogue. The egg was then bought in for £200. and was put up for sale for the third time on March 16th, 1895, when it realized £210 —vide pp. 26 and 27. Sale Catalogue as above “BIRDS IN CASES,’’ Bird II. - “ Lot 627. The Great Auk in fine condition.” Bought by Mr. Thomas Cooke, of 518 New Oxford Street, (afterwards of Museum Street), London, for £94 10 O A note in Professor Newton’s copy of the sale catalogue also says : “sold by him [Thomas Cooke] to Professor D. G, Elliott, for the New York Museum.’’*' In 1837 this Bird was in the possession of Mr. Tucker, a dealer in the Quadrant, Regent Street, who. as I am informed by Mr. E. Bid well, exchanged it with Mr. A. D. Bartlett for some other natural history specimens. Mr. Bartlett sold it the same year to Edmund Maude, Esq. In 1852 Mr. A. D. Bartlett sold to N. Trough ton, Esq., the Great Auk and egg formerly belonging to Edmund Maude, Esq.—vide p. 26. EGGS IX. and X. (Sale number seven.) Two eggs of the Great Auk, on July 2nd, 1880. Advertised in the sale catalogue No. 5644 as “two genuine eggs not previously recorded, discovered in an old private collection in Edinburgh, and some of the leading Naturalists are of opinion they may be the tlast unrecorded specimens that, ever will be fo^^nd.‘,, Egg IX. - “ Lot 200a. One fine specimen,’’ Bought by Lord Lilford, of Lilford Hall, Oundle, Northamptonshire, for £100 O O * cf. “ The Auk,” Vol. III., No. 2, p. 263. + Several more eggs, have, however, come to light, since the above was written, now over thirty years ago.