02nd October 2006
Taxidermy HouseKeeping
This page follows extensive research with various entities, namely, The Natural History Museum, The Booth Museum in Brighton, Rentokill and numerous PhD Entomologists here in the UK. This is our interpretation of those discussion...
02nd October 2006
IVORY strictly speaking a term confined to the material represented by the tusk of the elephant, and for commercial purposes almost entirely to that of the male elephant. In Africa both the male and female elephant produce good-sized tusks; in the Indian ...
02nd October 2006
Abraham Dee Bartlett born 27th October 1812 was one of the most prolific and important taxidermists of his time. He considered himself a Naturalist, being that from a very early age evinced a great delight in all matters connected with Natural History and...
02nd October 2006
Jumbo the Elephant had been captured as a two-year-old calf in 1861 in the French Sudan, bought by a collector, and sold on to the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. In 1865 he was transferred to London Zoo, where he was named by his keepers and became a national...
28th September 2006
It seemed that natural history and taxidermy ran in the veins of the Ward family. Both Henry and Frederick Ward were at various times of their early careers employed by naturalists of the likes of John Gould, William Swainson (refer to biopic later in the...
28th September 2006
James Gardner, 426 Oxford Street, London. This taxidermy business is thought to have been founded in the 1840's by James Gardner and continued by his son James Gardner. It is thought that a third generation of the same family was also involved as the busi...
28th September 2006
In Scotland the wildcat became extinct in the Lothians before 1800 and by 1830 it was absent from almost the whole of the south of Scotland and from Nairn, Moray and Banff. In Dumfries and Galloway, the last wildcat was killed at Balmaangan in 1810 or 182...
28th September 2006
We have just completed a review of Major European Bird Collections. This was partly due to the term "value" being attributed to cases of birds either by certain artists and their rarity in terms of availability. This term has always intrigued, given the f...
28th September 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...
28th September 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...
28th September 2006
Taxidermy HouseKeeping
This page follows extensive research with various entities, namely, The Natural History Museum, The Booth Museum in Brighton, Rentokill and numerous PhD Entomologists here in the UK. This is our interpretation of those discussion...
