Walter Potter

The past 15 years have gone crazy, you know?

I went to the I was I did have an interest in this stuff I went to the there was an auction of Walter Potter do you remember Walter Potter the Victorian taxidermist so this guy he made

his character yeah

he made these like scenes like they were a whole load of frogs playing cricket

It simply found a new home.

in this episode of the permanent record podcast i talk with sabrina about her journey from ballet and broadway to becoming a serious collector of natural history we discuss antique taxidermy museum level pieces extinct birds dodo bones walter potter the ethics of collecting and why sabrina sees these specimens not as trophies but as irreplaceable works of art and memory This is a conversation about preservation, privacy, beauty, and the strange pull of objects that outlast us.

I'm Gerard Leganier, and this is the

Permanent Record Podcast.

Tell me, what are your favorite? pieces.

The case of colobus monkeys from Emma Hawkins that were sold at a natural history sale three years ago, as well as the links.

I also love the Potter pieces, the Walter Potter pieces.

He was a rural taxidermist in England.