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George Ashmead, Naturalist of Ashmead & Co: The later years

Ashmead Argent & Co – A Bishopsgate Firm and Ashmead’s Prize Medal of 1862 Ashmead Argent & Co
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Ashmead Argent & Co – A Bishopsgate Firm and Ashmead’s Prize Medal of 1862

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George Ashmead Victorian Naturalist

What’s a Walter Potter Worth? The Kittens Wedding
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What’s a Walter Potter Worth?

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Walter Potter and Hermann Ploucquet compared

Walter Potter’s famous tableaux Kittens tea and croquet party Walter Potter
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Walter Potter’s famous tableaux

Walter Potter of Bramber Walter Potter museum Bramber
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Walter Potter of Bramber

The Women Behind The Big Victorian Names Australian Crane John Gould
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The Women Behind The Big Victorian Names

Dinosaurs in the Park The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
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Dinosaurs in the Park

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Stevens Auction Rooms

 The Victorian journey of the exotic beast, bird and animal Taxidermy birds under Victorian Glass Dome
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 The Victorian journey of the exotic beast, bird and animal

Bringing Nature Home
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Bringing Nature Home

The Curate, the microscope and the gull A little gull Larus Minitus
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The Curate, the microscope and the gull

Eight teeth and a pair of googly eyes thylacine head auctioneum Bristol
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Eight teeth and a pair of googly eyes

Under Victorian Glass Victorian dome with birds
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Under Victorian Glass

Adolphe Boucard, Walter Burton, and the Feather Trade That Consumed Itself
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Adolphe Boucard, Walter Burton, and the Feather Trade That Consumed Itself

How the Victorians developed the hunt in the Scottish Highlands Arverikie Estate
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How the Victorians developed the hunt in the Scottish Highlands

Taxidermy For Sale For Sale Taxidermy Pine Marten by Dave Hornbrook
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Taxidermy For Sale

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The Mountain Nyala
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The Mountain Nyala

The African Heart of a Modern Naturalist’s Library
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The African Heart of a Modern Naturalist’s Library

The Wonder and Wounds of the Belgian Congo Five gorilla death masks arranged in a grayscale collage on a dark background, framed.
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The Wonder and Wounds of the Belgian Congo

Rowland Ward: The Jungle and the Showman Rowland Ward Archive A
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Rowland Ward: The Jungle and the Showman

Van Ingen Brothers of Mysore Video video Burra Sahib
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Van Ingen Brothers of Mysore Video

Special Edition Newsletter no. 1 from the Lost Archive of Rowland Ward Rowland Ward Special Edition Newsletter No. 1
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The Lions Beneath The Petunias
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Saggerson Natural History Jon Saggerson Natural History
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The Afterlife of a Rowland Ward Kivu Gorilla The Jon Saggerson Collection of Rowland Ward Archive 6
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The Forgotten Rowland Ward Archive Rowland Ward Archive portrait photo from The Sketch Aug 1894
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