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Edward Gerrard & Sons was a taxidermy firm founded and run by the Gerrard family from 1853 in Camden, London. [1] The company also made anatomical models and dealt in sale of artefacts. The company was founded by Edward Gerrard, who was an employee of the British Museum's zoological department, as an attendant. [2]
The company specialised in and was renowned for its taxidermy work on birds and big-game trophies, but it did other types of work as well. In creating many practical items from antlers, feathers, feet, skins, and tusks, the Rowland Ward company made fashionable items (sometimes known as Wardian furniture ) from animal parts, such as zebra-hoof ...
As documented in Frederick H. Hitchcock's 19th-century manual entitled Practical Taxidermy, the earliest known taxidermists were the ancient Egyptians and despite the fact that they never removed skins from animals as a whole, it was the Egyptians who developed one of the world's earliest forms of animal preservation through the use of injections, spices, oils, and other embalming tools. [3]
Taxidermy tool kit owned by John Graham Bell. The three tools on the right feature ivory handles. John Graham Bell (July 12, 1812 – October 22, 1889) was an American taxidermist and collector. He traveled with John James Audubon [1] up the Missouri River in 1843 [2]. [citation needed] He also taught taxidermy to Theodore Roosevelt. [1]
Trundle Manor is a macabre art museum and oddity tourist trap in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] It was founded by artist couple and Anton and Rachel Miriello and houses their personal collection of cryptozoology, vintage taxidermy, and jarred specimens.
The American Ornithological Society will be changing the names of all birds currently named after people (152 species in the U.S. and Canada). This colorful bird is named after a slave owner.
The word taxidermy describes the process of preserving the animal, but the word is also used to describe the end product, which are called taxidermy mounts or referred to simply as "taxidermy". [ 1 ] The word taxidermy is derived from the Ancient Greek words τάξις taxis (order, arrangement) and δέρμα derma (skin). [ 2 ]
John Hancock (24 February 1808 – 11 October 1890) was an English naturalist, ornithologist, taxidermist and landscape architect.Working during the golden age of taxidermy when mounted animals became a popular part of Victorian era interior design, [2] Hancock is considered the father of modern taxidermy [3] [4]