African taxidermy and tribal art highlight Summers Place Auctions` September Sale
(Artdaily.org)

This Autumn, Summers Place Auctions will be having a strong Africa theme in the sale on the 25th & 26th September 2018. The auction will include some of the best recorded African wildlife taxidermy next to tribal art and some of the usual mix of sculptures, garden statuary and other quirky objects. The taxidermy collection belonged to F. Cecil Cobb, who joined one of the most driven and famous big game hunters of all time, Major Percy Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) one one of his many expeditions to Africa. Cobb wrote a book titled `Sport on the Setit`, in which he recounted his hunting trip to the Sudan, in 1911. The book is illustrated with photographs of some of the animals he shot during the expedition, and many of these are presented in this auction – mementos of a bygone era when attitudes to such things were very different to our own. Major Percy Powell-Cotton set up a museum in his family home at Quex Park near M