From collection Charles Coombs Collection
Taxidermy Window
This is likely in Charles Coombs' Taxidermy shop. Which animal is not stuffed? Charles Coombs was the undertaker of Belfast at the turn of the 20th Century. He was also a furniture maker, amateur photographer, and appropriately, a taxidermist. This look into his taxidermy studio shows mounted heads of two white-tailed deer, a moose, a pronghorn antelope, and finally, another white-tailed deer. There are two owls atop a cabinet on the left. The owl on the left is a snowy owl with a great horned owl on the right. Just below, beginning on the left is an eider duck, and then to the right, a red fox with a long-tailed weasel below, followed, to the right, by a gray squirrel. The dog in the foreground is not stuffed, however, and is one of Coombs' Irish Setters, possibly Rex.
