The quirky farmhouse discovery, which dates back to circa 1870, was uncovered in Leicestershire
A creepy Victorian taxidermy box depicting the ancient nursery rhyme ‘Who Killed Cock Robin?’ is set to fetch £5,000 at auction. The 1870 diorama features more than 30 stuffed birds surrounding the coffin of ‘Cock Robin’ who is lying in the open casket with a fatal arrow wound in his chest.
“To see stuffed birds in such vivid, human-like poses is quite bizarre. We suspect this find may fly away to America.” The 150-year-old antique depicts the nursery rhyme in a display using more than 30 birds. The nursery rhyme famously begins, ‘Who killed Cock Robin? I, said the Sparrow, with my bow and arrow’. It then goes on to list a host of creatures from beetles to fish and birds who play their part in Cock Robin’s demise.
“There are also similarities to poem Phyllyp Sparowe penned by John Skelton in circa 1508. It laments the death of a pet bird. Versions of the story also appear in other countries, including Germany. Celtic pictographic calendar with a bow-and-arrow shape. “Lugh was the primary god representing the red sun and was also known in Welsh as Coch Rhi Ben, anglicised to ‘Cock Robin’.
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