photo credit: TennantsRare Eastern Quoll by James Gardner In the UK in August 2025 this very rare and interesting specimen…
thevelvetdrawingroom15 November 2025
Pratt of Brighton 1852-1952 A label showing the address of Cranbourne Street - dating from 1904 onwardsA Gyr Falcon sold…
thevelvetdrawingroom20 April 2025
Photo: TennantsWhat you notice when looking at (the very few) taxidermy bird items from Ledot of Paris, like these being…
thevelvetdrawingroom15 November 2025
Victorian domed taxidermy Monal Pheasant by Peter Spicer An unusual high-quality domed Monal Pheasant by Peter Spicer is discovered in…
thevelvetdrawingroom5 February 2025
Walter Burton 1854-1913 Walter Burton FZS was the youngest son of Victorian Naturalist & Taxidermist, Henry J Burton. Born on…
thevelvetdrawingroom15 November 2025
Walter Burton, His Customer and the Victorian Snake Tattoo In 1907 Edward Aubrey Courtauld Lowe, who commissioned two wild cats…
thevelvetdrawingroom2 January 2025
Joseph Robert Burton Victorian Taxidermist 1842 - 1909 Employees of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand in about 1881 with…
thevelvetdrawingroom30 December 2024
120 & 191 Wardour Street, London H.J. Burton Naturalist, Furrier and Plumassier. A label dated sometime between 1878-1882, before the…
thevelvetdrawingroom15 November 2025
I discovered that the customer who commissioned these wild cats from Walter Burton FZS lived at the historic Gosfield Hall…
thevelvetdrawingroom24 August 2025
