A Good Early 20thC Taxidermy Water Buffalo Skull & Horns sub-Antiques and retaining good vivid colouring

and retaining good vivid colouring

the other paler and more neutral

pomander or scent flask

The bone is probably animal bone but it is not impossible that it is human

A Good Early 20thC Taxidermy Water Buffalo Skull & Horns sub-Antiques and retaining good vivid colouringOrigin: Asia Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1910 30 Height: 23 inches (with horns) Width: 25. 5 inches (at maximum) Depth: 7 inches (at maximum) The impressive female (Bubalus bubalis) water buffalo horns arching backward an then curving upward flanking the skull, with the set of teeth still present, the whole presented un mounted, surviving from the first half of the twentieth century. The condition of the whole is good