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BIRDS OUR BIRDS SIGNED FIRST PRINTING H von MICHAELS BIRDS
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Von Michaelis Our Birds
8 Colour Plates
Second Series. First Printing.
Signed in Pencil and in Plate Two Signatures.
Rare Scarce 9 Signatures
Von Michaelis, H. (Heinrich) / Allan Bird. Our Birds. 8 Colour Plates. Second Series. First Printing. Cape Town, ABC Press, Not dated (ca. 1960). 35 x 25 cm. A set of eight colour plates, mounted on stiff grey paper sheets. Together with a four page Introduction and Explanation. Plates and Introduction inside decorated cardboard presentation folder. Folder in plastic cover, as published. Very good condition. Colour plates are as new.
Provenance: From the Library of Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Field Marshal Alanbrooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke.Heinrich Von Michaëlis (1912 1990) was a South African artist (painter, sculptor), ornithologist, pilot and expert in gliding. Born in 1912 in Germany to a German father and South African mother, he returned to his mothers native country in 1937. He died in 1990R300 a plate 8 x R300 = R2400 Market Price R8000 Strauss sells his Stuff at a High Premium as same Artist is deceased and thus the works tend to increase in price.
The premium is also on the Rarity of Original 9 Signatures. these Plates normally sell with only in Plate Signature...the Pencil Signatures which is a a Double Signature is Rare.