My ichthyosaurus collection

[DPS Ammonite]

Just a thought... maybe some/one of the fossils are not from the localities that are listed as tags (below) on the original post. If so, a real expert will have to figure it out, not me. 

 

UK, Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Whitby, Penarth

 

[Miocene_Mason]

I'll add my guess as to the mistake, maybe the coprolites are not from an ichthyosaur?

[JohnBrewer]

1 hour ago, DPS Ammonite said:

Just a thought... maybe some/one of the fossils are not from the localities that are listed as tags (below) on the original post. If so, a real expert will have to figure it out, not me. 

 

UK, Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Whitby, Penarth

 

While that is true as two are German that’s not the blatant error I made. 

13 minutes ago, WhodamanHD said:

I'll add my guess as to the mistake, maybe the coprolites are not from an ichthyosaur?

Nope 

[DPS Ammonite]

That wood of the drawer looks rather new. It might not be 19th century as stated.

[TqB]

I can only see one actual paddle bone on the "paddle" - the rest of it is humerus and girdle (coracoid, scapula, clavicle).

[Bobby Rico]

Hi John if you keep all your fossil in 19 century draws . What else makes up your cabinet of curiositys ? Did you mean you keep mostly your Ichthyosaurs fossil in 19 century draws?

 

 

cheers Bobby 

[JohnBrewer]

18 minutes ago, TqB said:

I can only see one actual paddle bone on the "paddle" - the rest of it is humerus and girdle (coracoid, scapula, clavicle).

Well spotted. But not the answer I’m looking for Tarquin. 

[JohnBrewer]

5 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Hi John if you keep all your fossil in 19 century draws . What else makes up your cabinet of curiositys ? Did you mean you keep mostly your Ichthyosaurs fossil in 19 century draws?

 

 

cheers Bobby 

All sorts of bizarre things. Early 20th C/late 19th C wet preserved fauna, some dry preserved fauna (not your regular stuffed rabbits/foxes/pigeons &c tho), various medical instruments, a human skull, a fab 1950’s eye teaching model, a very rare Momento Mori Daguerreotype of a baby (some people find this bad taste/immoral but I put 19th C values on it not 21st C values so I have no problem. Tons of other things. Maybe I’ll post pics in the diversions forum of the less controversial things.  

[Bobby Rico]

Wow ok . Yes I would like too see some of your curiosity indeed. Have you ever been to The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities in Hackney ? I think you may like it . I did get some nice things out of a skip at work last year, a great 1950s school science poster of a chicken’s workings , bell jars and different science clamps and stands, an old ostrich egg and a sharks head . But all are not so interesting as yours sound. 

 

Cheers bobby

[JohnBrewer]

1 hour ago, DPS Ammonite said:

That wood of the drawer looks rather new. It might not be 19th century as stated.

It’s actually an early 20th C haberdashery set of drawers we collect cabinets from late 18th c/19th c/up to mid 20th c. 

[JohnBrewer]

1 minute ago, Bobby Rico said:

Wow ok . Yes I would like too see some of your curiosity indeed. Have you ever been to The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities in Hackney ? I think you may like . I did get some nice things out of a skip at work last year, a great 1950s school science poster of a chicken’s workings , bell jars and different science clamps and stands, an old ostrich egg and a sharks head . But all not so interesting as yours sound. 

 

Cheers bobby

I know the museum, it used to be a ship up until a couple of years ago. Victor (not his real name surprise suprise) I’ve met a couple of times. Mad as a box full of monkeys. A guy called Vadim Cosmos who dressed like Richard O’Brian and had similar statue would open it up. Obvious that wasn’t his real name either! They had a great sign outside the shop saying something like this is not a shops of ill repute to put it in terms the forum would find acceptable. It was better as a shop imho but once I spent £1000 there. I have an understanding wife. I occasionally work in Hackney.

 

Didn’t know you were British Bobby. 

[Bobby Rico]

Yeah he is nuts. And I think he got a box of monkeys too. Yeah I live in Leicestershire . Your house sounds fantastic. 

 

 

[thelivingdead531]

20 hours ago, JohnBrewer said:

All sorts of bizarre things. Early 20th C/late 19th C wet preserved fauna, some dry preserved fauna (not your regular stuffed rabbits/foxes/pigeons &c tho), various medical instruments, a human skull, a fab 1950’s eye teaching model, a very rare Momento Mori Daguerreotype of a baby (some people find this bad taste/immoral but I put 19th C values on it not 21st C values so I have no problem. Tons of other things. Maybe I’ll post pics in the diversions forum of the less controversial things.  

 

That sounds like an amazing cabinet! I hope you do post photos of it in the diversions forum. 

[TqB]

Back to the elusive mistake - how about the post title says "Ichthyosaurus" but that's only one genus of ichthyosaur and several of these could be something else ( e.g Temnodontosaurus)?

[Taogan]

One chunk almost definitely is Temnodontosaurus, looks like it is a dredged specimen same as the bits I have

[JohnBrewer]

@TqB and @Taogan you’re right but that would be too cruel. @jpc pretty much got the answer right but which picture?

[LiamL]

Woah! Very nice collection! Thanks for posting

[ynot]

Nice collection John!

 

2 hours ago, JohnBrewer said:

pretty much got the answer right but which picture?

It is the picture that does not show an ichthyosaurus bone.

 

 

[JohnBrewer]

1 hour ago, ynot said:

Nice collection John!

 

It is the picture that does not show an ichthyosaurus bone.

 

 

Indeed! 

[Crann]

Nice collection Brewer...

[belemniten]

Thats a great collection ! 

[Mike from North Queensland]

John

 

Nice collection of Ichthyosaur makes me want to go out collecting but getting a bit too hot down my end of the world.

Also tells me I should start prepping some of the material I have at home at the moment.

 

Mike