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Andy Henry. In memoriam
Barnacle Goose.

Historical Victorian Taxidermy

"Purchasing Britain's taxidermy heritage"
Andy Henry. In memoriam
Barnacle Goose.

Victorian

Rowland Ward
Peter Spicer
James Hutchings

Bill Cox of Liverpool

James Gardner

Thomas Edward Gunn
Thomas Jefferies
A.S.Hutchinson
H T Shopland
J Cullingford
Walter Potter
Carl Ethan Akeley
Abraham Dee Bartlett
John James Audubon
John Gould
William Borrer
Henry Murray
Scottish Taxidermy
Norfolk Taxidermy
H Shaw of Shrewsbury
Mountney of Cardiff
Farren of Cambridge
White of Salisbury
Bazeley of Northampton
Williams of Dublin
Great Auk taxidermy
Swaysland of Brighton
J.A.Cole of Norwich
Lowne of Great Yarmouth
George Bristowe

Historical

Charles Darwin
Taxidermy Trade Labels
Stereoviews of Taxidermy
Victorian Taxidermy
Edwardian Taxidermy
The Great Exhibition of 1851
Passenger Pigeon
Countdown to Extinction
Richard Lydekker F.R.S.

Modern

AJ Armitstead
Barry Williams
David Keningale
Modern Taxidermy
Reproduction Eggs
How to complete a case

Collections

Four Elms Collection Four Elms Collection II
Booth
Booth II

Booth III

Booth IV

Ogilvie Collection
Ogilvie I Collection
Ogilvie II Collection
Ogilvie III Collection

Gallery

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Taxidermy Trade Labels
Bass Rock Scotland
Taxidermy Birds

American

Taxidermy in America
Taxidermy in America II
Taxidermy in America III
Chicago Natural History Museum

Restoration

Taxidermy Restoration
Housekeeping

Value

UK Taxidermy Price Index

Fish

Fish Taxidermy

Mammals

Mammals
Trophies/Games Mounts

Articles

Taxidermy Forums
Museums
Guilds
UK Taxidermists
Taxidermy Articles
Taxidermy Dealers
Taxidermy Suppliers
Hunting
Fishing
Field Sports

Law

Taxidermy Law

Links

Taxidermy Links

Wanted

Taxidermy Wanted
Limits of Liability

We are a group of the UK's largest and most dedicated collectors. We are always seeking to purchase only quality items of Victorian and Modern taxidermy. This Website is now the most comprehensive worldwide, and was established August 2004. Arguably this site represents a History of British Taxidermy, given the number of taxidermists represented. No other internet site has the same level of detail and content. Not a boast just a simple fact.

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Now there are Hutchings collectors and there are Hutchings collectors. This chap is perhaps the largest. These images are just a sample of what is in the collection. Most people do not have 40 cases by Hutchings let alone 44 foxes by one person. Also an additional 33 cases of foxes by other makers, so nearly 100 in total. Add that to the additional 1200 other quality cases and this is quiet a collection. That said we are always interested in buying more of the same. Just click on the Dragon below to see more images.

Featured Taxidermy page on this site

"The Welsh Room".

"The Welsh Room II"
Too many cases to feature solely upon one page.

TAXIDERMY ITEMS WANTED. Please respond via this on-line form HERE with a description of what you have for sale.

www.Historical-Taxidermy.co.uk/.com

So if you are seeking to purchase quality taxidermy, sell quality taxidermy or have it valued for auction house disposal, then go to this site. This site is dedicated to collectors dealing solely with collectors. This site has been significantly updated so worth a visit.

British Historical Taxidermy for sale.


TAXIDERMY ITEMS WANTED. Please respond via this on-line form HERE with a description of what you have for sale.

If you have items for sale then please telephone the following number:

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Contained within this site are over 5819 individual images of Victorian and Modern taxidermy and taxidermy related material, located on some 153 individual pages. The most comprehensive website dedicated to this subject. We will buy everything of quality you have for sale, no exceptions. To coin a phrase made recently, we collect dead people's dead things. We are now entering a new phase in this site's development, more to follow.

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Impressive Little Tern and chicks display by Charles Thorpe of Croydon (Ex Andy Henry collection). It appears that this image has excited a few people and rightly so for it is a lovely and desirable case. Go on, "borrow" the image if you must, we have had the exclusive anyway. Latest offer on this case is £2000, so its going to be expensive to own, that shouldn't be a problem.

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Snowy Owl by Peter Spicer. Copywrite Mr Sailor. Many thanks for its unrestricted use. We have been looking for a suitable image to create a limited edition free print from for a while. Close ups of this image to follow on the Peter Spicer page.

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Redstart by John Cooper & Sons. Another recently acquired case. Cooper was princpally a fish taxidermist and this is both a rare and interesting example of his work.

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And they say that taxidermy collectors are a weird bunch. Just don't get it!!!!!!!. Apparently it says Rowland Ward underneath and fresh to the market.

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Historical view of the British Natural History musuem, preparing a Gorilla.

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Andean Condors by Small of Edinburgh

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Ptarmigan. Nicely posed and detailed. Interesting subject matter and case compilation.

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Ptarmigan. This is a case by Peter Spicer, the quality is obvious, well to the relative experts that is. When victorian mounts age they develop a charm all of their own. Apparently this site is going downhill. Don't think so, it is the largest resource on the internet and free to all.

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Hobby. Interesting subject matter and case compilation. You might want to go to the Spicer page on this site and see what Spicer Hobby's should look like.

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Purple Sandpipers. Acquired in the Shetland Isles circa 1890. Unknown taxidermist.

Latest 34 modern and historical taxidermy pages within this site

Updated this week, UK price index,Rowland Ward, John Cooper birds.

Forthcoming Auction

Red-Throated Diver.

Shellbrooke of Brignorth.

Carrion Crow & Moorhen.

"3 Little Kittens who have lost their mittens".

"Little America".

Ephemera.

Common Guillemot. Charles Thorpe. Van Ingen of Mysore. Antique case restorations.

James Millar / Collection dispersement service. Eskimo Curlew. More Peter Spicer. "Tasmanian Wolf,", now extinct.

W.Barnes, Islington. Charles Waterton Hooded Mergansers. John Bisop Murray.

The Californian Condor. The Gainsford Hall disposal 1985. The Hart-Hall disposal 1982 F Lawrence & Co, Leeds.

The Californian Condor. Anthropomorphic taxidermy. Sir Richard Owen. 1935 Record Trout by John Cooper & Sons.

WF Homer of Forest Gate, London Gerrard's of London. Trophy Heads. Soul in the Skin.

The Welsh Room III. "The Written Word". UK Taxidermy price index. Malloch of Perth.

Additional 68 Featured Historical Taxidermy pages within this site from the 144 pages packed within information on this subject making it the most comprehensive globally.

Taxidermy chicks. Darwin Museum, Moscow. Historical Images Dioramas.

Lee Yafano. Hooded Crows. John Cooper Birds The Echalaz Bird Collection.

The Climmers. Plume Hunters. Walter Lowne George Bristow.

Henry Shaw, taxidermist. The Great Auk. Williams of Dublin Mountney of Cardiff.

Swaysland of Brighton. White of Salisbury. Farren of Cambridge. Bazeley of Northampton.

A.J.Armitstead, taxidermist. Mr Eric Gorton, Bird Artist North Atlantic Long tail Duck Velvet Scoter / Guillemots

Eider Ducks / Goldeneye North Atlantic Scoters The Ogilvie Bird Collection The Ogilvie Bird Collection

The Ogilvie Bird Collection The Ogilvie Bird Collection Barry Williams, taxidermist North Atlantic King Eider

Harlequin Ducks John Cooper & Sons Duck Hunting Caddo, Lake Ringneck Ducks

Pratt & Sons of Brighton Pratt & Sons of Brighton Richard Lydekker 1849-1915 William Thomas Cox

Norfolk Taxidermists Mr Elmer Oxley Carl Ethan Akeley Charles Darwin

Rowland Ward "Naturalist" Abraham Dee Bartlett Tazmanian Tiger, extinct. Four Elms Collection

Four Elms Collection II Thomas Edward Gunn Reproduction Eggs Victorian Taxidermy

Taxidermy Trade Labels Taxidermy Wanted Passenger Pigeon James Hutchings of Aberystwyth

Peter Spicer Taxidermy Edward Thomas Booth Fish Taxidermy John Gould "Bird Man"

James Gardner Walter Potter Scottish Taxidermy Henry Murray

AS Hutchinson Thomas Jefferies Mammal Taxidermy Chicago Field Museum

TAXIDERMY ITEMS WANTED. Please respond via this on-line form HERE with a description of what you have for sale.

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European Polecat with prey by James Hutchings.

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We can be funny / obtuse toooooooo. This sums it up nicely for us.

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Victorian Dabchick by G W Quatremain of Malvern.

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Victorian European Curlew and chick, by Hodder "Presever of Birds and Animals" of North Street Clapham, London and not for sale. Very much in the style of James Hutchings, but by a Victorian London Taxidermist.

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A pair of Skylarks with 4 chicks preserved by Pratt of Brighton. This Taxidermists features prominently in the Booth Museum. The above case is the best Pratt of Brighton case I have ever seen in terms of attention to detail and the overall balance within what is a compact case. Pratt tended to produce large cases, which sometimes made the birds look a little lost.


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Victorian

Rowland Ward
Peter Spicer
James Hutchings

Bill Cox of Liverpool

James Gardner

Thomas Edward Gunn
Thomas Jefferies
A.S.Hutchinson
H T Shopland
J Cullingford
Walter Potter
Carl Ethan Akeley
Abraham Dee Bartlett
John James Audubon
John Gould
William Borrer
Henry Murray
Scottish Taxidermy
Norfolk Taxidermy
H Shaw of Shrewsbury
Mountney of Cardiff
Farren of Cambridge
White of Salisbury
Bazeley of Northampton
Williams of Dublin
Great Auk taxidermy
Swaysland of Brighton
J.A.Cole of Norwich
Lowne of Great Yarmouth
George Bristowe

Historical

Charles Darwin
Taxidermy Trade Labels
Stereoviews of Taxidermy
Victorian Taxidermy
Edwardian Taxidermy
The Great Exhibition of 1851
Passenger Pigeon
Countdown to Extinction
Richard Lydekker F.R.S.

Modern

AJ Armitstead
Barry Williams
David Keningale
Modern Taxidermy
Reproduction Eggs
How to complete a case

Collections

Four Elms Collection Four Elms Collection II
Booth
Booth II

Booth III

Booth IV

Ogilvie Collection
Ogilvie I Collection
Ogilvie II Collection
Ogilvie III Collection

Gallery

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TaxidermyGallery10
TaxidermyGallery11
TaxidermyGallery12
Taxidermy Trade Labels
Bass Rock Scotland
Taxidermy Birds

American

Taxidermy in America
Taxidermy in America II
Taxidermy in America III
Chicago Natural History Museum

Restoration

Taxidermy Restoration
Housekeeping

Value

UK Taxidermy Price Index

Fish

Fish Taxidermy

Mammals

Mammals
Trophies/Games Mounts

Articles

Taxidermy Forums
Museums
Guilds
UK Taxidermists
Taxidermy Articles
Taxidermy Dealers
Taxidermy Suppliers
Hunting
Fishing
Field Sports

Law

Taxidermy Law

Links

Taxidermy Links

Wanted

Taxidermy Wanted
Limits of Liability


This "website" has consulted with and has been critically reviewed by European Regulatory Authorities / Defra, monitoring the sale of taxidermy and representatives of the UK Guild Of Taxidermists to ensure that it complies with Current Guidance / Licencing on the ownership and display of Taxidermy Specimens here in the UK. You are more than welcome to check, the link(s) to Defra and The Guild's legal expert are located half way up this page and within the site in general. In so far as is both reasonable and practical, we understand that all the modern items of taxidermy shown on this site were are informed by their owners to have the appropriate licences and documentation. Sooooooo no need to go running as we are regular contact. Perhaps it is you that should be worried?.

With reference to "Modern" examples, those produced after 1947, we are interested in purchasing these also, but must have relevant and appropriate Defra and CITES licences, when appropriate. Cases without such information shall be declined. We suggest you make your own investigations in this area to avoid confusion.

Further information can be obtained at www.ukcites.gov.uk, www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/index.htm and www.eu-wildlifetrade.org


Site was last updated: November 1st 2009.

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