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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HUNGRY WHITE-TAILED KITE
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SERENE ICEBERGS
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
BABY ELEPHANT HAS FUN IN THE SUN
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GOLDEN EAGLE FESTIVAL
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VIBRANT WOODPECKER FEEDS HER YOUNG
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UNDERWATER DIVING DOGS
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DOG WITH A BONE
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