23rd November 2006
Thomas Richard Jefferies & Sons
King Street Carmarthen, Wales
Very little is known about this company of taxidermists. It is understood that Jefferies of they were initially master carvers and guilders and moved to Wales from London and operated from ...
22nd November 2006
General observation relating to taxidermy preservation
If you posses taxidermy, that has been handed down the generation or are just starting out collecting taxidermy. Firstly welcome to this interesting and diverse world of collecting. From our experi...
22nd November 2006
George Bristowe of St Leonards
1870-1947
George Bristow of St Leonards. This man it is understood taught ET Booth the art of taxidermy and it is further understood stuffed some of the birds that now form part of the Booth Collection in Brighton. Brist...
22nd November 2006
William Borrer, Naturalist
William Borrer was born at Barrow Hill, Henfield, West Sussex on January 18th 1814. He inherited a love of natural history from his father the noted botanist William Borrer senior, friend of Sir Joesph Banks and William Hooke...
22nd November 2006
Hutchings Family
It would appear that James Hutchings began working as a taxidermist in Aberystwyth in the 1860s. His sons, James (Fred), George and Walter and daughter (Poppy), followed him in the taxidermy trade and the firm continued until 1942. The...
22nd November 2006
A.S Hutchinson of Derby
It would appear that This company began business around 1870's. The company was one of the most prolific taxidermist firms in Britain and their work is considered to be of a very high standard. Although British birds features in...
22nd November 2006
What Price Natural History Collections, or 'Why do we need all these bloody mice?' by Charles Pettitt, Manchester Museum [publ. 1991 in Mus. Journal 91 (8): 25-28]
The Under-valuation of Natural History Collections
'Why do we need all these bloody mic...
22nd November 2006
During this period collecting and mounting of both taxidermy birds and animals was undertaken on a commercial scale. Routinely specimens were collected from the wild in a random fashion. Birds, chicks and eggs were taken for scientific purposes and arrang...
22nd November 2006
Born in 1804 at Lyme Regis on the English coast, he was one of 5 children and the only son of John and Elizabeth Gould. Gould junior was nearly thirteen years old when his parents moved from Stoke Hill to Windsor where his father had taken the position of...
22nd November 2006
Bass Rock Scotland
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Bass Rock is a 450 foot high crag at the mouth of the Forth of Forth, 30 miles from Edinburgh, Scotland. Bass Rock 10km off the coast is home to 70,000 gannets, and countless other seabirds, including puffins.
Adult gannets return ...
22nd November 2006
We are a group of the UK's largest and most dedicated collectors who are seeking to purchase good quality Victorian and Edwardian Taxidermy. Quality items of taxidermy wanted circa 1800's -1930's. The site also has been established as an educational porta...
22nd November 2006
Charles Robert Darwin was born at Shrewsbury, England, in 1809, the son of a well-to-do doctor. His mother died in 1817 when Charles was eight years old. In the following year he was sent to Shrewsbury School, where, to all accounts he was below average i...
22nd November 2006
John Cooper & Sons
This company is perhaps the finest exponent of taxidermied fish certainly in Europe. They pioneered the use of materials and techniques that in the main are still in use today, if you wish to have a fish prepared and not just a cast ...
22nd November 2006
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations was held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851. It was the first international exhibition of manufactured products and was enormously influential on the devel...
22nd November 2006
Peter The Great 1672-1725
When Peter the Great decided to establish the first Russian public museum of rarities and oddities, he already possessed certain objects which were to serve as a starting point for the museum's collections. Among them were artic...
