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Old World Taxidermy
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52 Years
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Chicagoland's #1 taxidermist.
- General Info
- Welcome to Old World Taxidermy, located in Palatine, Illinois! Old World Taxidermy provides over 30 years of experience in full-line taxidermy services. We are a USDA licensed dipping station located just 20 miles from Chicago O'Hare airport (a designated port of entry), which allows you to have your overseas trophies to be shipped directly to us. Our reputation has been built on quality and service. We are deeply committed to giving our clients the best in artistic creativity, craftsmanship and materials. The experience, the pride we take in our creations, superior workmanship, and exceptional attention to every detail reflects in each piece. Let us help to capture and preserve the memories of your hunt and enjoy our one-of-a-kind mounts. We will gladly offer pre-hunt assistance and send you free shipping tags as well. We are deeply committed to giving our clients the best in materials, craftsmanship, and artistic creativity. Our experience with painting, sculpting, photography and hunting enables us to create custom design museum quality mounts. Offering: * Custom - designed museum mounts * Trophy mounts * Trophies from all over the world * Exceptional attention to detail * Artistic creativity and craftsmanship * Custom-designed museum quality mounts & more! Visit our showroom or website today for more information!
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- Services/Products
- 30 Year Reputation For Quality Service|African Animals|Artistic Creativity and Craftsmanship|Asian Animals|Bird Taxidermy|Birds|Contract Rates|Create Custom Design Museum Quality Mounts|Custom - Designed Museum Mounts|Custom-Designed Museum Quality Mounts|Exceptional Attention To Detail|Exotic Animals|Fish|Game Taxidermy|Horn Mounts|Money Orders Accepted|Multiple Showrooms and Trophy Rooms|North American Animals|Pet Taxidermy|Pre-Hunt Assistance Available|Rare and Unique African Art|References Available|Reptile Taxidermy|Rugs|Skull Mounts|Taxidermist|Trophies From All Over The World|Trophy Mounts|USDA Licensed Dipping Station
- Brands
- ADDAX BABOON BADGER BEAR (Black) BEAR (Brown) BEAR (Grizzly) BEAR (Polar) BEAVER BISON BLACKBUCK BLESBUCK BOAR (Russian) BOBCAT BONGO BOTENBOK BUFFALO (Cape) BUSH PIG BUSHBACK CARACAL CARIBOU CHAMOIS CIVET COYOTE CRANE DEER DEER (White Tail) DIK DIK DUIKER (Others) DUIKER (Yellowback) ELAND (Common) ELAND (Lord Derby) ELEPHANT ELK ELK (Bugling) FOREST HOG FOX GAZELLE (Grant's) GAZELLE (Thompson's) GEMSBOK GENET GERENUK GIRAFFE GNU GOAT (Catalina) GOOSE GRYSBOK HARTEBEEST HIPPOPOTAMUS HYENA IMPALA JACKAL JAVELINA KLIPSPRINGER KUDU (Greater) KUDU (Lesser) LECHWE LEOPARD LION MARKHOR MARTIN MINK MONKEY MOOSE MOUFLON MOUNTAIN GOAT MOUNTAIN LION MUSKOX NILGAI NYALA (Mountain) NYALA (Southern) ORIBI ORYX OSTRICH OTTER PHEASANT PORCUPINE PUKU QUAIL RABBIT REEDBUCK RHEBOK RHINOCEROS ROAN SABLE SALOMONOID FISH SALT WATER FISH SHEEP SHEEP (Big Horn) SHEEP (Dall) SHEEP (Desert) SHEEP (Rocky Mountain) SHEEP (Stone) SIAGA SITATUNGA SMALL SCALE FISH SPRINGBOK STEENBOK SUNI TAHR TOPI TSESSEBE TUR TURKEY WARTHOG WATER BUFFALO WATERBUCK WILD BOAR WILDEBEEST WOLF WOLVERINE ZEBRAANTELOPEDUCKLARGE SCALE FISH
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Whoa!! Stay far far away from this outfit. If I could I wouldn't give any stars at all. This man took aprox 8 YEARS to complete my 10 bird mounts. The first mount he finished was decent so I gave him more birds to mount. However, all the rest he mulitated and the mounts don't look anything like the birds are supposed to. The eyes are wrong color and shape, the feathers were awful and he put padding exactly where it should not be. And I told him how it should be done, showed him large accurate photos of the birds, came by to check on them and again mentioned the eyes and other issues and he still ruined them. They don't look anything like they are supposed to. I gave him absolutely perfect specimens and he ruined them all but the first one he completed. All I can do now is throw out the really crappy ones a maybe keep about 3 that are acceptable. I gave him some very beautiful and very rare species and he gave me back trash.....and I PAID HIM TOP DOLLAR to boot. Next time I'll have my 3 year old grand son do the job, surely he can do better AND it won't take 8 years to do the job. I'm so disappointed. Anyone reading this better beware. He tried to make excuses for his crappy work but that doesn't cut it when I see on his workbench that he butchers the critters rather than make them look anything even remotely similar to what they should look like. Don't waste your money with this outfit. If you do you won't be happy with the results.
I am so disappointed that I felt the urge to sign up for yelp, so this is my first review and probable my last. Its sad, I had so much faith in this guy and he ruined $1000's of dollars worth of specimens plus I paid him $1000's to do it. STAY FAR FAR AWAY FROM OLD WORLD TAXIDERMY!!!
FYI, I don't not exaggerate one bit in this review. Actually, you should hear how I REALLY feel but I'm trying to keep this clean. BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE!!!!!!
Come on.....8 years to mount a few birds...and he still &%$#ed them up.
I'm not familiar with yelp but if someone needs to contact me [if there is a way to do so] I'll be happy to explain further. This is 100% the truth and I held back my true feeling on his performance. Now I'm out a ton of $ because of his incompetence.
Find another taxidermist and good luck. If old world taxidermy can reply to this review don't believe him for one second. His excuses are not valid.
OH! I paid him in full last year and when I just went to pick up the last of the mounts he said I still owed him. I have proof that he is paid in full. This guy is too old to do business anymore.
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Phone: (847) 359-6938
Address: 724 S Plum Grove Rd, Palatine, IL 60067