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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STUNNING WINTER PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HIGHEST RAILWAY IN THE ALPS

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PET DOG WITH CANCER LEFT TO DIE

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ADORABLE SQUIRREL GETS READY FOR A SNOWBALL FIGHT

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SURREAL WILDLIFE

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SEAL GETS READY FOR HIS CLOSE UP

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SCULPTURES THAT WILL LEAF YOU SPEECHLESS

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DARK DISNEY

THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .

SNOWCAP SQUIRREL

WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .

LOST LEAPING BABY WHALE

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WAVES FROZEN IN TIME

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GOOGLEMAP WHALESHARKS

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