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 1990

R300 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.