Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration

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HOME TAXIDERMY FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT

A Guide for those who wish to prepare
and mount animals, birds, fish,
reptiles, etc., for home, den,
or office decoration

by

ALBERT B. FARNHAM, Taxidermist







[Illustration: "WHOO" SAID WISE OLD OWL.]



Published by
A. R. Harding, Publisher
Columbus, Ohio

Copyright, 1944
By A. R. Harding Pub. Co.




[Illustration: ALBERT B. FARNHAM, Author]




CONTENTS


CHAPTER.                                                         PAGE.

        INTRODUCTORY                                                13
     I. HISTORY OF THE ART                                          17
    II. OUTFIT--TOOLS AND MATERIALS                                 21
   III. PRESERVATIVE PREPARATIONS, FORMULA, ETC.                    38
    IV. PANELS, SHIELDS AND NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL MOUNTS           48
     V. FIELD WORK, COLLECTING                                      59
    VI. SKINNING AND PRESERVING SKINS                               64
   VII. MAKING SCIENTIFIC SKINS                                     77
  VIII. PREPARING DRY AND WET SKINS FOR MOUNTING                    84
    IX. MOUNTING SMALL AND MEDIUM BIRDS                             87
     X. MOUNTING LARGE BIRDS                                        98
    XI. TANNING, CLEANING, AND POISONING SKINS                     102
   XII. MAKING ANIMAL FUR RUGS                                     110
  XIII. FUR ROBES AND HOW TO MAKE THEM                             123
   XIV. MOUNTING ENTIRE SMALL ANIMALS                              131
    XV. MOUNTING LARGE ANIMALS                                     141
   XVI. MOUNTING HEADS OF SMALL ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISH            151
  XVII. MOUNTING HEADS OF LARGE GAME                               155
 XVIII. MOUNTING HORNS AND ANTLERS                                 165
   XIX. MOUNTING FEET AND HOOFS                                    173
    XX. MOUNTING FISH                                              178
   XXI. MOUNTING FISH--BAUMGARTEL METHOD                           185
  XXII. MOUNTING REPTILES, FROGS AND TOADS                         203
 XXIII. SKULLS AND SKELETONS                                       206
  XXIV. SPORTSMEN'S TROPHIES                                       211
   XXV. ODDS AND ENDS, TAXIDERMY NOVELTIES                         216
  XXVI. GROUPS AND GROUPING                                        221
 XXVII. ANIMAL ANATOMY                                             224
XXVIII. CASTING AND MODELLING                                      227
  XXIX. MARKET TROPHY HUNTING                                      233
   XXX. COLLECTING AND MOUNTING FOR SALE                           238
  XXXI. PRICES FOR WORK                                            241




List of Illustrations


                                                                 Page.

"Whoo? Said Wise Old Owl"                                 Frontispiece
A Specimen of the Early Day                                         18
Work Table, Supplies, Tools, Etc.                                   22
Home Made Tools                                                     24
Taxidermists Tools                                                  27
Taxidermists Tools--Scalpels, Scissors, Stuffers                    28
Egg Drill and Other Tools                                           29
Glass Eyes for Animals, Birds, Fish                                 31
Sizes of Glass Eyes                                                 33
Sizes of Glass Eyes (Style 1)                                       34
Shields--Various Kinds and Sizes                                    49
Shields, Foot and Hall Rack                                         50
Gun Rack, Fish and Game Panels, Hall Rack                           51
Some Shields and Panels                                             52
Home Made Shield                                                    54
Small Bird                                                          55
Marbles Shot Gun and Rifle Combined                                 60
The "Stop Thief" or Choke Trap                                      61
Outline of Muskrat                                                  65
Skinning Small Animal for Mounting