TAXIDERMY ART BOOK

A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book. Other spookily compelling taxidermy images show a bird's funeral complete with casket, a kitten's wedding and a well-dressed stuffed monkey riding a goat. The stuffed curios were all created by Victorian Englishman Walter Potter, who originally displayed his strange taxidermy creatures to the awe-struck paying public from The White Lion Pub which doubled as his museum in Bramber, Sussex. Brought up in Bramber from 1835 and dying in 1918, Potter's museum continued to entertain until 1970, when it passed to the Jamaica Inn of Brighton. In 2003 the surviving collection was auctioned for half-a-million pounds to various buyers from across the world.

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CROCODILE CAVE DIVING PENSIONER

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LAZY LIZARDS RELAX AND POSE LIKE YODA

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ABANDONED TAVERN AND FARM SHOP

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FACES OF ORPHAN VICTIMS OF AGENT ORANGE

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OKLAHOMA TORNADO

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GOING IN FOR THE GILL

NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .

CHERNOBYL - 28 YEARS ON

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BIG FOOT 'JESUS BIRD'

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SPECTACULAR AURORA BOREALIS

A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .

STUNNING ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE

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GIANT CANYON SWING

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