12th October 2006
William Thomas Cox ( Bill Cox of Liverpool) was a father to son arrangment from 1887, until 1951, when the company finally closed it's doors. It has been suggested the the company was formed earlier in 1850, but no records exists to establish this claim. ...
06th October 2006
The law has also caught up and rightly so with this trade. There are restrictions on the sale and trade of endangered species. The US and the UK, in my opinion have the most comprehensive sets of legislation currently in force. Again these can be research...
06th October 2006
The aim of this webpage is to bring together the taxidermy work of Peter Spicer and the Peter Spicer Company so that you can appreciate the depth and extent of the work carried out. For a definitive opinion on the work carried out by the firm of Peter Sp...
04th October 2006
John Alexander Cole 1838-1906
It is suggested that he served as an apprentice to James Gardner in London before establishing is own firm in Norwich. Interesting to note that he did not execute his cases in a Gardner style, preferring the box case, flat...
04th October 2006
WWW.Taxidermy4cash.com. Look ar Potters page on this site.
Arguably one of the founding fathers of English Taxidermy, Walter Potter was born on July 2nd 1835 in the village of Bramber near Steyning in West Sussex.
Very little remains of this museum t...
04th October 2006
The Passenger Pigeon, once probably the most numerous bird on the planet, made its home in the billion or so acres of primary forest that once covered North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Their flocks, a mile wide and up to 300 miles long, were so d...
04th October 2006
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 Hooker.
William Borrer was educate...
04th October 2006
Ole Worm, a Danish Naturalist
Ole Worm was born in rhus, where he attended the city's grammar school, which was known for its humanist traditions. At the age of 13 he was sent to Germany to continue his education, first at the high school in Laneburg,...
04th October 2006
Auks are a common group of marine birds comprising 22 species, and include guillemots and puffins. When submerged, they propel themselves with their wings, steering with the feet. The legs are near the tail, giving the birds an upright posture on land, li...
03rd October 2006
Carl E.Akeley was born on May 19th, 1864, on a farm near Clarendon, New York. At the age of thirteen, Akeley became interested in birds and by his own admission stated that he felt much out of place on the farm as he was more interested in taxidermy than ...
03rd October 2006
To understand the Ward's influence on Victorian Taxidermy in many Countries you first have to understand where Henry Ward got his inspiration from. That inspiration came in the form of John James Audubon.
Audubon was born in the French colony of Santo ...
03rd October 2006
Thomas Edward Gunn was the largest taxidermy business in Norwich and was based in St. Giles Street. Competitors included Cole of Norwich and Roberts of Norwich. He ran the business from 1844-1923 bearing his name. His son, Frederick (FE Gunn) retired from...
03rd October 2006
THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO and Other East African Adventures by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O. 1907
Back in 1898, the British decided to build a railroad in East Africa. This railroad would stretch from Mombasa on the coast of modern-day Kenya to L...
02nd October 2006
By the end of the century one in 10 species of birds in the world will be extinct and a further 15 per cent will be on the brink, according to one of the largest studies of avian biodiversity. It is estimated just over 1 per cent of bird species have beco...
02nd October 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...
