Victorian

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. The site was launched August 2004 and is the best resource on the internet for the 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.
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.

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Contained within this site are over 6403 individual images of Victorian and Modern taxidermy and taxidermy related material, located on some 173 individual pages. The most comprehensive website dedicated to Taxidermy. 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 have,as the UK's largest resource, extensive / comprehensive knowledge of this subject which enables us ensure that the prices offered are both fair and accurate. Our price database of some 1700 plus quality "named" cases sold privately and at auction over the last 7 years ensures that our offers to purchase or to simply value are very realistic and reflect the current market trends. This site, through the dedication of its contributors just keeps getting bigger and bigger, with most apsects of taxidermy covered. To quote Errol Fuller, "I wished this site was around 30 years ago when I started collecting". For those who are just starting out, what a perfect way to explore this scientific art form. The information will always be free on this site, even though less able people like to "take /steal" from us. This site represents the History of Taxidermy, in both nature and extent.

Drake Widgeons by Peter Spicer & Sons. Just a simple view of two immaculate Spicer cases one expertly and sympathetically restored. They do indeed make a lovely pair. This only re-enforces our pledge to buy anything of quality.
Red/White Irish Setter flushing an English Partridge by James Hutchings.
Perhaps one of the most iconic taxidermy cases of the victorian period Pugilists by Edward Hart. These are Red Squirrels in anthropomorphic poses. Enjoy.

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Golden Orfe by John Cooper & Sons when Griggs ran the company. Not really our taste but then having never seen another one by Cooper, it had to be purchased. Might soon be available to a the more serious fish collectors. Enjoy anyway. The fish is 4 and one quarter pounds as the data label clearly states. Yet another fish case purchased recently. If you wish to enquire about this fish then please feel free to do so. Wonder if this image will be stolen as well?.
Golden Orfe by John Cooper & Sons when Griggs ran the company. Not really our taste but then having never seen another one by Cooper, it had to be purchased. Might soon be available to a the more serious fish collectors. Enjoy anyway. The fish is 4 and one quarter pounds as the data label clearly states. Yet another fish case purchased recently.
North Atlantic Gannet by John Cooper & Sons. This is being offered for auction by Tennants on 22nd July. Amongst the quality taxidermy you will also find items by Rowland Ward. We will be bidding for this item, so all you cooper collectors out there at home and abroad can bid too.
Pair of young Badgers by James Hutchings. Being offered for sale at Peter Francis Auction house (20th July 2010). We suggest before you go to the auction you satisfy yourselve as to condition and maker. We don't want the spitting of dummies at the this auction house as well. Moving on, there are some other fine cases by this maker offered for sale also. Also much international interest has been sought for the Heath Hen at Tennants. So most likely going to leave these shores. However perhaps it might be saved for the nation, as it is of "historical" importance to us all.
Very nice case of Foxes by EF Spicer.
Very nice set of cases by either Duncan and or Cullingford of Newcastle. We have managed to track down 3 of these cases so to speak.
Staggering Oystercatcher by Peter Spannenburg of the Netherlands. More work on the page called modern day masterpieces.
Long Eared Owls. This looks like a case from the Charles Stonham scientific collection and if so likely to have been mounted by Williams of Dublin.
Very nice dome (removed for cleaning) of Sunbirds by James Gardner. We were delighted to be of assistence to a French collector to acquire this item. We have also been very active providing opportunities for US / European based collectors to acquire some fantastic cases from the UK. No charge for this service by the way.

Latest 54 modern and historical taxidermy pages within this site

Updated this week UK price index, Modern day Masterpieces and North Atlantic Fulmar.

Northern Fulmar.

James Hutchings II.

Kiwi.

Rowland Ward II.

Oystercatcher nest scene.

Jackdaw (Corvus monedula).	Bird Sketches.	Modern day masterpieces.	"The Welsh Room II".

George Herd 1876-1926	Historical taxidermy data.	William Farren, Pied Wheatear.	Peter Spicer & Sons Peregrine Falcons.

The Dodo.	Museum Quality victorian taxidermy.	Fred Sanders, Islington.	Jeroen Bennema.

H.N.Pashley of Cley.	TE Gunn's watercolour.	John Cooper & Sons II.	Great Bustard.

Shellbrooke of Brignorth.	Red-Throated Diver.	Rowland Ward Ephemera.	Peter Spicer & Sons.

Ephemera.	"Little America".	"3 Little Kittens who have lost their mittens"	Carrion Crow & Moorhen.

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 69 Featured Historical Taxidermy pages within this site from the 173 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 DELETED.	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

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European Polecat with prey by James Hutchings.
We can be funny / obtuse toooooooo. This sums it up nicely for us.
Victorian Dabchick by G W Quatremain of Malvern.
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.
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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