Do you collect anything else?

[stargatedalek]

animal figurines in general, and anime figures

[tanystropheus]

Recently,

I've been collecting NECA Aliens, Play Arts Kai Batman Dark Knight Trilogy, TMNT classic collection, Bandai Thundercats. I preordered the new 6'" line of BTAS and TNBA.

[Gwangi]

I've recently started collecting taxidermy and animal pelts. Most of them come from antique shops. I was already big on collecting skulls and fossils and things like that. Anything to make my house look more like a museum really. So among the mounted animals we now have an American black duck, red-tailed hawk, rainbow trout, smallmouth bass, raccoon, weasel and a melanistic gray squirrel. The pelts come from an American badger, weasel, fisher and raccoon. Let me make it clear that these things are all old and I don't condone the trade of animal parts or killing animals for the sake of doing so. The duck comes from the early 80's, the two fish from the 60's and 70's, the fisher pelt from 1992. The black squirrel we found hit by a car and had done ourselves. I'll post pictures of them some day.

[tyrantqueen]

I've recently started collecting taxidermy and animal pelts. Most of them come from antique shops. I was already big on collecting skulls and fossils and things like that. Anything to make my house look more like a museum really. So among the mounted animals we now have an American black duck, red-tailed hawk, rainbow trout, smallmouth bass, raccoon, weasel and a melanistic gray squirrel. The pelts come from an American badger, weasel, fisher and raccoon. Let me make it clear that these things are all old and I don't condone the trade of animal parts or killing animals for the sake of doing so. The duck comes from the early 80's, the two fish from the 60's and 70's, the fisher pelt from 1992. The black squirrel we found hit by a car and had done ourselves. I'll post pictures of them some day.

Taxidermy is very interesting, especially bad taxidermy, rofl. I live near to an antiques cellar, and they always have lots of old taxidermy. Some of it can be bad (often the taxidermist chose the wrong kind of eyes, giving the animal a goofy look) but it's always very interesting. The biggest mount they ever had was an American black bear.

Here's an example of the stuff they sell. This is a photo from the website. Note the stuffed polecat



I go there often, it's fun to just look at all the weird things there.

[Gwangi]

Oh I love places like that. Anything strange, unique, historical, old and yes, creepy too. I probably would have bought that polecat if I visited that shop. I also like bad taxidermy, and a couple of mine are kind of goofy looking. Helps add to the charm I think. But I'm a weird person who likes weird things. The largest taxidermy I've seen for sale were an entire Florida key deer, a coyote and a moose head. All of them outside my price range for the time being. I recently saw a grizzly bear skin rug but aside from having no place to put it you can imagine the price tag on it.

[tyrantqueen]

Speaking of taxidermy, do you know about King Frederick's lion? It's hilarious.

[tanystropheus]

I've recently started collecting taxidermy and animal pelts. Most of them come from antique shops. I was already big on collecting skulls and fossils and things like that. Anything to make my house look more like a museum really. So among the mounted animals we now have an American black duck, red-tailed hawk, rainbow trout, smallmouth bass, raccoon, weasel and a melanistic gray squirrel. The pelts come from an American badger, weasel, fisher and raccoon. Let me make it clear that these things are all old and I don't condone the trade of animal parts or killing animals for the sake of doing so. The duck comes from the early 80's, the two fish from the 60's and 70's, the fisher pelt from 1992. The black squirrel we found hit by a car and had done ourselves. I'll post pictures of them some day.

Taxidermy is very interesting, especially bad taxidermy, rofl.

You mean chimerics 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2075978/The-nightmarish-hybrid-taxidermy-land-Franken-artist-jail.html

[tyrantqueen]

I've recently started collecting taxidermy and animal pelts. Most of them come from antique shops. I was already big on collecting skulls and fossils and things like that. Anything to make my house look more like a museum really. So among the mounted animals we now have an American black duck, red-tailed hawk, rainbow trout, smallmouth bass, raccoon, weasel and a melanistic gray squirrel. The pelts come from an American badger, weasel, fisher and raccoon. Let me make it clear that these things are all old and I don't condone the trade of animal parts or killing animals for the sake of doing so. The duck comes from the early 80's, the two fish from the 60's and 70's, the fisher pelt from 1992. The black squirrel we found hit by a car and had done ourselves. I'll post pictures of them some day.

Taxidermy is very interesting, especially bad taxidermy, rofl.

You mean chimerics 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2075978/The-nightmarish-hybrid-taxidermy-land-Franken-artist-jail.html

Nah, that's sideshow gaff type stuff. I mean bad by stuff like this:



Stuff where the taxidermist isn't trying to make something weird on purpose, but just messes up due to lack of knowledge or poor technique.

[Gwangi]

Oh wow! No, I was not familiar with this lion but I thank you for bringing it to my attention. It really looks like it was done intentionally but the fact that it wasn't only makes it better. Thanks for sharing that TQ.

[tanystropheus]

I feel sorry for that lion (?) ...
Not a dignified way to go...

[stargatedalek]

I can not comprehend how you could take about an animal and over the course of that forget how to put it back together
that lion is way scarier than a live one!

[tyrantqueen]

I can not comprehend how you could take about an animal and over the course of that forget how to put it back together
that lion is way scarier than a live one!

He (the taxidermist) didn't forget, because he never knew how in the first place. He had only the bones and pelt to work with, and had never seen a real lion before. This was back in 1731

[stargatedalek]

oh ok, that makes more sense

[Hynerpeton]

I got tons of hot wheels.

[Tyto_Theropod]

Has anyone ever checked out that blog, Crappy Taxidermy?

http://crappytaxidermy.com/

On a related note, I bought an antique red squirrel mount from a junk shop the other day (a start to yet another expensive collection...) And then I discovered that it was illegal to sell any red squirrel mounts from any date here in the UK (where they're endangered) without a license. Oh, great. What a way to blow £85.00!  Also have a fox fur and a mink fur stole from the 30's or 40's. Of course these are all old stuff, I'd majorly not be in favour if they were fresh.

In fact I'd quite like to learn how to do taxidermy myself someday when I'm not so busy, it's a very interesting skill. Which isn't to say I support killing animals, I don't. If I did taxidermy, I'd use roadkill. insect taxidermy is pretty cool, too. I've already stored a daddy long-legs which drowned in my bath. I'm just waiting to get a frame for it

[Gwangi]

Thanks for posting that blog, I can see I won't be sleeping well tonight!

I'm curious to see that red squirrel mount. They're such beautiful animals. What are you going to do with it? Might as well hang on to it now that you own it I suppose.

[tyrantqueen]

This looks like something you'd see in a horror movie: http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/Weeze1990/Private/scarymonkey_zps3a02eb4b.png

Do NOT want.

[Tyto_Theropod]

This looks like something you'd see in a horror movie: http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/Weeze1990/Private/scarymonkey_zps3a02eb4b.png

Do NOT want.

[Gwangi]

This looks like something you'd see in a horror movie: http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/Weeze1990/Private/scarymonkey_zps3a02eb4b.png

Do NOT want.

I think I can pass on that one!

EDIT: I dunno, maybe if the price was right! 

[Hynerpeton]

Creepy monkey! Lol