FINISHING OFF A RE-GLAZED AND TREATED HUTCHINS FOX,PRIOR TO DELIVERY,COLLECTED IN SURREY FOR CLIENT,CLEANED,VARNISHED,TREADED WITH INSECTICIDE,RE-GLAZED,POLISHED AND DELIVERED,READY FOR ANOTHER HUNDRED YEARS OF DISPLAY
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ANOTHER TOP QUALITY RENOVATION OF BRITISH BIRDS,RE-WORKED VICTORIAN CASE WITH BIRDS OBTAINED FROM AUCTIONS AND DEALERS,INCLUDES RED KITE,FERRIGINOUS HAWK,BUZZARD,PAIR OF HEN HARRIERS,FEMALE MERLIN,BARN OWL AND LITTLE OWL,A PRICLESS PIECE OF TAXIDERMY,NOW IN MY HOME AS PART OF MY PRIVATE COLLECTION
LUCKILY THIS SUPERB CASE NEEDED VERY LITTLE TIDYING
NICE PAIR OF BADGER CUBS TO BE RENOVATED,TYPICAL,BROKEN FRONT GLASS AND TAPING FALLEN AWAY
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TYPICAL RENOVATION PROJECT,CASE OF BIRDS BY CHARLES WHENLOCK OF BOLTON,ARRIVED BROKEN GLASS,INSECT INFESTATION,DUSTY,DAMAGED,WOODWORM IN REAR PANELS,FROM A DISTANCE A NICE LOOKING CASE,42 BRITISH,AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN CAGE BIRDS.
BELOW,INFESTED BIRDS TAKEN OUT,BACKBOARD REPLACED,REPAIRS TO FLOOR OF CASE,TREATED WITH VARIOUS PROTECTIVE SUBSTANCES.
FLOOR CLEANED UP READY FOR TREATMENT WITH INSECTICIDE AND RE- GRAVELING
FEW REMAINING BIRDS PRIOR TO CLEANING,AND RE-POSITIONING
BELOW,STARTING TO FILL UP AGAIN,NICE NEW BARN OWL AND NEW KESTREL FITTED.
MORE BIRDS AND GROUNDWORK,TAWNY OWL AND HAWK FITTED,NEARLY THERE
ALL DONE AND DUSTED,SADLY THIS ONE FAILED TO GET MUCH MONEY FROM UK BIDDERS AND ENDED UP IN LOS ANGELES
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VICTORIAN ANGLED CASE RESTORATION,ARRIVED WITH A MOULDY PHEASANT AND STARLING,WITH THREE OTHER EMPTY SPACES WHERE OTHER BIRDS HAD BEEN REMOVED AND SOLD,UNWANTED FOLIAGE,LEAF LITTER,AND PAPER REMOVED,TREATED WITH INSECTICIDE AND STORED IN SUB-ZERO TEMPRATURE TO KILL OFF ANY POSSIBLE EGGS FROM LITTLE BEASTIES!
A PASSING LITTLE EGRET STOPS TO VIEW VACANT PROPERTY AND AFTER TRYING FOR SIZE HE CHOOSES INTERIOR DESIGN AGREES TO MOVE IN!
LITTLE EGRET POPS BACK TO VIEW COLOUR SCHEME WHILST WORKMAN GETS A CUPPA!
A FEW NORFOLK REEDS ,MOSS LICHEN AND SHELLS,AND A SHOVELOR DRAKE FOR COMPANY
A LITTLE BIT MORE FOLIAGE,GRAVEL AND A COMMON SANDPIPER.
RECYCLED PIECE OF VICTORIAN GLASS,AND READY FOR HANGING.
A CASE OF BIRDS BY HOOPER AND SONS FROM 1880,SOME INFESTED,SOME DAMAGED,CASE CRACKED AND GROUNDWORK ROTTED AWAY THROUGH DAMP OR JUST GENERAL AGE.SMALL BIRDS AND WADERS RECOVERED AND RENOVATED/TREATED AND RECASED
CASE CLEARED,TREATED WITH INSECTICIDE,RE-LINED AND PAINTED.
GREY HERON FROM DAMAGED CASE INSERTED
FOLIAGE AND PURPLE HERON
NIGHT HERON AND CATTLE EGRET INSERTED
LATEST PROJECT JULY 2007 CASE OF SEABIRDS BRIGHTON SUSSEX AREA 1879 DATED
ON ARRIVAL AFTER COLLECTION,FIND OF NEWSPAPER DATED 1879 AND FURTHER RESEARCH POINTS TO THE CASE BEING BUILT AND BIRDS MOUNTED BY PRATT ANS SONS OF BRIGHTON,WITH THE BIRDS BEING COLLECTED/SHOT BY BOOTH ON A SCOTTISH EXPEDITION.
LID OFF FOR AIRING,LEFT TO STAND FOR ARSENIC AND/OR AND DUST TO BE BLOWN AWAY,TIME FOR A QUICK EXIT AND DISTANCE FOR A FEW HOURS.CASE INCLUDED TWO RED-THROATED DIVERS,BLACK GUILLEMOTT,TWO RAZORBILL & COMMON GUILLEMOTT,,COMMON TERN,DUNLIN,KINGFISHER,RINGED PLOVER,TWO KITTIWAKE AND A OYSTERCATCHER
SIDE VIEW DURING AIRING PERIOD,
VIEW FROM THIRD SIDE,SADLY OYSTERCATCHER,COMMON GULL,RINGED PLOVER, AND LITTLE TERN BEYONG SALVAGE,
UNSALVAGEABLE BIRDS REMONED VACUUMED OUT AND GROUNDWORK SEALED AND RE-LAQUERED.GLASS CLEANED,EXTERIOR WOODS VARNISHED,BEFORE 24 HOUR DRYING OFF.
VICTORIAN PEREGRINE FALCON PLACED IN CASE,ANOTHER BIRD OF ROCKY COASTS
KITTIWAKE PLACED IN FOREFRONT OF CASE AFTER CLEANING AND TREATING.
1879 NEWSPAPER FROM SUSSEX AREA FROM INSIDE OF CASE,DATED THREE YEARS BEFORE BOOTH DIED
SIDE VIEW GLASS OUT,READY FOR FOLIAGE AND GRAVEL BASE
MOSS AND GRASSES FIXED IN PLACE
SIDE VIEW,GLASS ON DIVER POMD CLEANED UP
NEARLY FINISHED GLASS AND A NEW BEADING TO CUT
BUZZARD ON WOODCOCK PREY DURING RESTORATION
LEOPARD DURING RENOVATION
huge dome under renovation
HUGE MUSEUM CASE AFTER EMPTYING DAMAGED BIRDS
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