Teddy Roosevelt’s big game toys make £14,000 in Yorkshire

Despite riding the crest of a wave of popularity, Theodore Roosevelt declined to run again for the presidency in 1908. Instead he anointed William Howard Taft as his successor and famously embarked upon a year of big game hunting in Africa.

Seventeen lions, 11 elephants, 20 rhinoceros, a Nobel Peace Prize and the funeral of King Edward VII…

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