If you acquired an elephant's foot, what would you do with it?

[fogbat]

Is this about the time I can confess to my collection of hunting trophies?

Don't you remember the old saying: "A hooker's ear does not a hunting trophy make".

Silly Bluey

 

[Pip]

Boring boring boring.

You didn't need to start a thread to come to that conclusion. You've wasted lots of people's intellectual energy this afternoon. I for one will bear a grudge.

I liked the idea of a lamp base, but I'm not about to start drilling through 100 year old elephant flesh to make it.

 

[Pip]

Surely a slab of illegally imported rain forest rare wood might look nicer?

Again, are you offering?

 

[geminisnake]

Eww grim I wouldn't want it in my house.

You can't use the leather argument cos leather's a bi-product of the meat industry.

I agree with zenie on this. I wouldn't want a recognisable bit of dead animal in my house tbh.

Very bad feng shui too

I have a cuddly stags head on my wall as a pisstake of the hunting trophies of old.

 

[dodgepot]

You guys! It's not 1987 any more, you don't have to pretend to be principled! Elephant feet for all!

except for heffalumps

 

[teuchter]

I liked the idea of a lamp base, but I'm not about to start drilling through 100 year old elephant flesh to make it.

And what about my ceiling suggestion huh?

 

[fogbat]

Enough legs stacked on top of each other would make a fine organic pillar

 

[Badgers]

Hollow out the top and fill it with dip

 

[Pip]

And what about my ceiling suggestion huh?

I'm thinking about it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Is this about the time I can confess to my collection of hunting trophies?

You are Predator 2 and I claim my £5

 

[madzone]

You can't use the leather argument cos leather's a bi-product of the meat industry.

It's not you know More like meat is a by-product of the leather industry

The leather industry can be extremely cruel

 

[bluestreak]

You are Predator 2 and I claim my £5

 

[Geri]

The leather industry can be extremely cruel

Yes, I'm thinking more carefully about buying leather if I don't know where it's sourced from. The softest leather comes from unborn calves.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/27/ethicalfashion.leather

 

[spring-peeper]

I'd bring it to your door and wave it at you

Sounds like a plan!!!

Y'all know I'm in Canada and I doubt you would get the foot through customs, right???

But you are always welcome at my door!!! And if you bring the elephants foot, that is no problem. I will still welcome you with open arms and treat you to the best of Eastern-Ontario hospitality.

And, when you leave, you will be taking the elephant's foot with you

 

[geminisnake]

Yes, I'm thinking more carefully about buying leather if I don't know where it's sourced from. The softest leather comes from unborn calves.

Most of the leather I wear is for on the bike so soft leather would be absolutely no good at all so I'm not going to feel guilty.
If people didn't eat meat or wear leather the animals wouldn't be there at all, some folk don't seem to grasp this.

 

[zenie]

It's not you know More like meat is a by-product of the leather industry

The leather industry can be extremely cruel

Even if that is the case, at least it uses all the animal.

How do you mean?

 

[madzone]

Even if that is the case, at least it uses all the animal.

How do you mean?

The leather industry relies on cheap hides from india. I'll google some links tomorow - too fucked right now

 

[bluestreak]

If people didn't eat meat or wear leather the animals wouldn't be there at all, some folk don't seem to grasp this.

Jesus, posts this daft are why I don't get involved in vegetarianism threads any more. You can't surely believe that crap can you? What about zoos, or indeed, the existence of wild animals in post-industrial countries in general?

 

[geminisnake]

Jesus, posts this daft are why I don't get involved in vegetarianism threads any more. You can't surely believe that crap can you? What about zoos, or indeed, the existence of wild animals in post-industrial countries in general?

Farmers would NOT have fields full of cattle and sheep if they weren't making money out it. They're business men not charities. That's what I meant by the animals, domestic livestock not every animal in the world
Sorry if that was not clear.

Zoos have a few of some types of animal that most people wouldn't see otherwise. Big difference imo.

 

[panpete]

Split the chocolate icing coated choux pastry top and the choux pastry bottom. Try to get the fresh cream on both bits. I would eat the bottom bit first, then the chocolatety top bit last. Elephants feet are just a different shaped chocolate elcair cake.

 

[_pH_]

i'd cut my leg off and have it transplanted to just below the knee

 

[_pH_]

*polishes shotgun*

I have a lot of junk, but aside from the dessicated corpse of madeline mccann, i have no antique hunting trophies. i used to have a stuffed stoat but it got an infestation so we gave it a viking burial. well, if the vikings had invented fireworks. I also have a collection of my own teeth. I offered to carve them into a wedding ring for my girlfriend but she turned me down on that one, perhaps it's more your sort of thing?

thats not funny


well maybe a bit

 

[teuchter]

Farmers would NOT have fields full of cattle and sheep if they weren't making money out it.

Having fields full of cattle and sheep isn't in itself a "good thing" though. Unless you're a meat eater.

 

[Louloubelle]

I'm looking at you, Louloubelle.

Would you turn it into a coffee table?


Serious answers only please.

OK

does it have provenance or a maker's label?

It is probably Victorian and almost certainly pre-convention as they are not popular nowadays


You can look on ebay to see how much they sell for

one here

They usually have a wooden lid, does yours?

How many toes does it have?

One problem is that if you store it in a room at the wrong temperature / humidity it will start to rot, also if you don't protect if from moths it will probably get infested

I like the idea of it being in the ceiling but if I acquired one I would give it to a friend who had a home suitably large and filled with hunting trophies, mothballs etc to accommodate it and preserve it

 

[geminisnake]

Having fields full of cattle and sheep isn't in itself a "good thing" though. Unless you're a meat eater.

I never said it was. I don't eat much meat but my point still is livestock serves a purpose and that is why it is there.

I think bluey may have misunderstood my earlier post.

 

[Pip]

One problem is that if you store it in a room at the wrong temperature / humidity it will start to rot, also if you don't protect if from moths it will probably get infested

Is that so? What temperature/humidity is suitable? And you do reckon anointing it in sandalwood oil (is that the moth deterring one?) would help?

 

[quimcunx]

I thought cedarwood was meant to be the moth deterrent.

I still think you should give it to me to display my armadillo handbag on.

 

[Pip]

You're probably right with the cedarwood oil.

 

[quimcunx]

You're probably right with the cedarwood oil.

I'm also right that you should give it to me.

 

[Louloubelle]

Is that so? What temperature/humidity is suitable? And you do reckon anointing it in sandalwood oil (is that the moth deterring one?) would help?

I'm no expert in taxidermy conservation, however I have a friend who has a lot of taxidermy and hunting trophies and they are all kept in a very cold, dry environment. A room in a big old house and in that room there is no central heating and all kinds of electronic tish designed to keep it all in good condition. In the old Victorian houses they didn't have central heating so things lasted longer

You can get taxidermy pieces mothproofed by taxidermist, not sure how much it is. Not sure about cedar oil so can't recommend it. I keep the moths at bay from my vintage clothes using s combination of pheromone traps, moth killer strips and potpourri with lavender or a mix of star anise and cloves with added essential oils (clove orange citronella and benzoin). I think that the pheromone traps and killer strips have the most effect

I was speaking to a woman who works as an assistant to Polly Morgan recently and she says that her entire studio reeks of mothballs.