A narrow aperture, a long lens and a flash used in daytime permits a strikingly taxidermied look without all that tiresome messing about with intestines, cotton-wool, and specially-shaped metal hooks:
Had not the Walter Potter Museum of Anthropomorphic Taxidermy been sadly broken up and sold as individual lots in 2003, I could offer to take you to an exhibit of many large and beautiful examples of Victorian taxidermy posed at a level of cuteness sufficient to choke an ox.
But there is only a Web site, and the images on it are small and of poor quality:
Who would not have paid £2800 for a case filled with 34 stuffed guinea-pigs, half of them playing cricket and the other half playing in a brass band? (http://www.acaseofcuriosities.com/assets/01grotesque/potter/Guinea_pigs_cricket.jpg)
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But there is only a Web site, and the images on it are small and of poor quality:
http://www.acaseofcuriosities.com/pages/01_2_00potter.html
Who would not have paid £2800 for a case filled with 34 stuffed guinea-pigs, half of them playing cricket and the other half playing in a brass band? (http://www.acaseofcuriosities.com/assets/01grotesque/potter/Guinea_pigs_cricket.jpg)
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But they are obnoxious blighters.