A carved mountain ash figure of a kookaburra by Robert Prenzel, circa 1920, signed with a stamp, naturalistically carved perched on a branch, the base root wood, twice stamped to the back of the lowest tail feathers 'R. Prenzel', 50 cm high, 34 cm wide, 28 cm deep. Provenance: acquired directly from Robert Prenzel in the 1920s by Gordon Gidney, Melbourne, thence by descent to the late John Gidney Pennell