skullcollection

These are my skulls I cleaned. I do it as a hobby and enjoy showing what I have off. I started this collection 8 years ago when I moved to Florida. Enjoy

 

thats an awesome collection! and the case its in make it look so classy! i would post mine...but it would be embarassing by comparison

 

Pretty nice collection!! Any chance for a close up on the reptile corner?

 

All collections I've seen so far are amazing! I'm so envious

Heres my <very small> collection!

Many thanks to FrozenCritters for the wolf skull! ;D



Photos taken on a Faux Fur Tiger Pelt (cause I'm not a real-fur fan)

I'd love to have a croc or gator skull, so I'm hoping a reptile dealer I know might be able to help (he has dwarf caimans and crocs I believe) but my dad thinks the reptile dealer might be alittle snobby about giving me a croc/caiman body.

 

Hi Ginger and Skylarlee2,

We all started with collecting with small amounts.
This Category gives us the opportunity to share the knowledge and passion with this great hobby.
So keep cleaning and collecting.

 

You have some wonderful collections, that's a great idea to show them here, unfortunately the size of the photographs is small.
This is a part of my collection. I have more skulls and skeletons. I did them all (found, cleaned, assembled). I have 19 articulated skeletons (20 soon) and around 49 skulls. have also some insects, crustacean and shells.

 

some nice looking skeletons Do you have more close up pics of the smaller skeletons in the middle?

 

Not all I have is pictured but a lot are. Feel free to dig.

http://s305.photobucket.com/albums/nn207/SeaWolf_1/

Couple of odd ones

 

Nice skulls Sea Wolf. What kind of whales are they from?

Hi Jean Christophe,

Nice skeletons, I love to see some detailed pictures.

 

Dead whales...

 

Thank you.
There are better photos of my skeletons here :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/galleriejc/

 

The larger one is from Minke whale. Smallish baleen whale. The skull is about 5 feet long. It used to hang in the cathedral ceiling of a house I used to live in. The smaller one is a Pilot whale.

 

Fantastic skulls to have.
I am jealous of you.
Here in Holland it's illegal to own Cetacea.
So we must do it with all the rest of the mammals and birds.

 

Really? I wasn't aware of that. Means you can't have any parts, not even single bones, like vertebrae and such?
And what about sea turtles?

Seawolf: do you have to get special authorisations to keep marine mammal specimens?

 

I would assume that you do now, yes. The skulls I have were obtained well before the Marine Mammal act. I can never sell them, never will. Can not give them away either. They, and most of my other collection will be left to an educational institution that would like to have them. I have loaned them out from time to time. After the Marine Mammal Protection act ... it basically says that you can't even pick up a vertebra or piece of bone off the beach that you might find in the waves. I don't think anyone would prosecute you, but as with the old specimens I have, you would never legally be able to sell them or give them to anyone. The picture of the pilot whale skull was done after an attempt at restoration. It was black and green with mold, smelled awful and the teeth were all coming unglued. Pieces of bone were missing that I attempted to restore the shape of with Apoxie. It is over 40 years old and it still smell funky. The minke worked out better. I buried that for over a year in a dune and went back and dug it up. My mistake was using chlorine bleach on it to whiten it. The bone is now brittle and it has to be consolidated and repair work done too. I didn't know any better back then.

 

Thanks!! By the way, may sounds like a stupid question, but how were you able to prove your specimens as pre-ban?
The pilot whale looks great by the way

 

If anything, I can come up with identifiable and dated photos. I also worked for a marine aquarium back then and have pictures of me working on the specimens. Back then, no paperwork was needed as it was just a dead thing off the beach like all other dead things. As stated above, paperwork or not, they can never be sold, given away or leave my possession unless they go to an educational institution. No one in my current family has any interest in inheriting them.

 

hello I'm new here on this forum. This is my small collection.