An interesting meeting with the animals

[DWalt]

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.

 

[MP-5]

People buy all sorts of strange and unusual animal mounts!

 

[mtgianni]

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.

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.

 

[Rule3]

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.

Pictures not allowed??

 

[DWalt]

I had no camera or smartphone with me.

 

[STCM(SW)]

I have seen some things like that in a house that I had to fix a computer in....
Not anything I would want.

 

[DWalt]

It would require a big house what with having two huge bears, a lion, and a Buffalo. Let alone the smaller specimens.

 

[glenwolde]

Maybe Cabela's. The store in Fort Worth has a huge room full of stuff like that.

 

[pawngal]

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.

 

[Bald1]

Taxidermy is very popular. There is definitely a market for it. M-P5 I love me a nice Jackalope mount.

 

[Onomea]

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.

 

[minconrevo]

Animal mounts are not a "once and done". They require careful, sometimes expert, maintenance to stay looking crisp. Additionally mounts are subject to infestation by peculiar insects, with efforts that must be made to keep them away.

 

[Leonard]

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.

 

[grover99]

Don't need yet another something that needs dusting.

 

[OutAtTheEdge]

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People buy all sorts of strange and unusual animal mounts!

I really don't understand why someone would do this. I'd have let him go at least another year...

 

[s&wchad]

Lots of dead things in the Chad household, but I didn't buy 'em!



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!