Articles, tagged with "taxidermist", page 2
22nd December 2006
Taxidermy forgeries
Forgeries can range from the technically excellent, where you "cannot see the join", to moronic attempts to deceive. Monetary gain appears to be driving this type of activity, so no surprise there really. The frequency of forging atte...
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19th December 2006
When to restore and when not to restore?. This is the question that is often posed and seldom answered these days. So many cases seemingly beyond repair now are being split / dismantled and turning up on internet auction sites. It would appear that the su...
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15th December 2006
We get asked to recommend Taxidermy Resources by our friends, if you don't find what your looking for then please feel free to contact us. If you also wish to link to us then your taxidermy information shall only be placed in the appropriate class.
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12th December 2006
This is an article prior to the disposal of the collection by Bonhams, a few years agao. The emtire collection wass disbanded and sent to all corners of the globe. However we have created a web page which contains most of Potters work. Thanks to the ...
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04th December 2006
The Museum was established by Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton, who spent forty years exploring Africa and Asia and collecting in the UK. Once he'd run out of room in the house, he built a 'Pavilion' alongside. This was opened to family and friends...
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04th December 2006
We get asked to recommend Bird Taxidermists in the UK and America. This taxidermist produces modern creations utlising many of the design features and case building techniques created by the Victorian Taxidermists. This taxidermy art form has changed litt...
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29th November 2006
The Victorian Taxidermist, Murray of Carnforth
The business of Murray was established in 1872 by Henry Murray working from premises in Scotland Road, Carnforth and continued with his son Albert Jamesuntil Albert retired in 1961. Murray's work was of th...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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18th November 2006
We have always been interested in creating dioramas, with nest eggs and chicks and to also closely match the birds that associate together and also near as possible the habitat in which they would be likely to be found. The case that is outlined below dem...
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17th November 2006
RICHARD LYDEKKER (1849-1915)
English naturalist and geologist, was born in London July 25 1849. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first-class in the Natural Science tripos (1871). He joined the staff of the geological survey of Ind...
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16th October 2006
We get asked to recommend Bird Taxidermists in the UK and America. This taxidermist produces modern creations utlising many of the design features and case building techniques created by the Victorian Taxidermists. This taxidermy art form has changed litt...
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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...
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