An interesting meeting with the animals

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Stuffed animals that is. Wife and I went to a community meeting this evening, held at a local auction house, which is a fairly large building. When we entered there were all of these stuffed animals inside. Full body mounts of a Grizzly bear, a Polar bear, an African lion, several Axis bucks, an American Bison, two bighorn sheep, a mountain goat, and the strangest item, a Rhino head. I suppose they are coming up for a future auction. I didn't ask anyone there about them, so that's all I know. Pretty bizarre. What I wondered was if there was even a market for such items. Personally I wouldn't accept them as gifts, and one would need a very large living room to display them. So would anyone here actually buy these? Maybe a natural history museum might be interested? I am sure someone spent a small fortune on getting them mounted.
 
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Stuffed animals that is. Wife and I went to a community meeting this evening, held at a local auction house, which is a fairly large building. When we entered there were all of these stuffed animals inside. Full body mounts of a Grizzly bear, a Polar bear, an African lion, several Axis bucks, an American Bison, two bighorn sheep, a mountain goat, and the strangest item, a Rhino head. I suppose they are coming up for a future auction. I didn't ask anyone there about them, so that's all I know. Pretty bizarre. What I wondered was if there was even a market for such items. Personally I wouldn't accept them as gifts, and one would need a very large living room to display them. So would anyone here actually buy these? Maybe a natural history museum might be interested? I am sure someone spent a small fortune on getting them mounted.
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Sounds like common bar decorations on the head. Full body's outside of private shooters homes, I have only seen as representatives of School mascots.
 
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Stuffed animals that is. Wife and I went to a community meeting this evening, held at a local auction house, which is a fairly large building. When we entered there were all of these stuffed animals inside. Full body mounts of a Grizzly bear, a Polar bear, an African lion, several Axis bucks, an American Bison, two bighorn sheep, a mountain goat, and the strangest item, a Rhino head. I suppose they are coming up for a future auction. I didn't ask anyone there about them, so that's all I know. Pretty bizarre. What I wondered was if there was even a market for such items. Personally I wouldn't accept them as gifts, and one would need a very large living room to display them. So would anyone here actually buy these? Maybe a natural history museum might be interested? I am sure someone spent a small fortune on getting them mounted.
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It would require a big house what with having two huge bears, a lion, and a Buffalo. Let alone the smaller specimens.
 
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A friend of mine has a full body Black Bear mount in their family room, along with a couple of deer heads and ducks and a pheasant.
 
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I recall encountering Handsome Dan, a full body, stuffed, bull dog, Yale's mascot, on the campus in New Haven, CT, years ago. If I recall correctly, the stuffee served as the university mascot in the 1930s.

And the LGS I used to visit on Oahu has a stuffed buffalo head on the wall.
 
When we down sized and moved to Florida I sold my collection shoulder mounts and full mounts around 100 pieces, one buyer out of Texas. Only kept ivory and one leopard. There's a market but you get a fraction of what they cost between cost of hunt, trophy fees, shipping, taxidermy. Personally I would not want a mount I did not take.
 
Lots of dead things in the Chad household, but I didn't buy 'em!

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I did own a rhino shoulder mount for a year or two. How many guys can say that! ;)

I bought it at an estate auction. It was too big to fit through our doors, so I had my taxidermist display it in his shop. I ended up having a specialty auction company sell it for me. Here's a digital copy of a film photo I took in the back room of my taxidermists shop. The mount was 6' tall, about 4' wide and projected 6' off the wall when hung!

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That Rhino mount is very similar to the one at the auction house. Just me, but I have never had the slightest interest in being a trophy hunter.
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I was primarily a meat hunter, but I enjoyed the sport. When I happened to take a nice trophy, I had it mounted. My wife shot the wood duck over the fireplace on our honeymoon. That was almost 32 years ago.

I gave up hunting to take care of the Mrs. I still fish a few times a year. They don't make food in the grocery store!

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