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Artistic Mounting! Embalming! 



Cheap! 



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Below we give a few testimonials received during the last ten years. 



Dr. Gibbs, Kalamazoo. Mich. 



Dear Sir:— The Process of Embalming which 

 I bought of you two years ago is a grand suc- 

 cess, and I am more than pleased with it. 

 Birds that I mounted by it are perfection. 



Leon P. Grant, 

 May 17. 1885. Jersey City, N. J. 



Normal School, Ypsilanti. Mich., Oct. 13. 1886. 



Have found your Embalming Process a suc- 

 cess. Am satisfied. F. A. Norton. 



Crystal Springs. Kansas. June 6. 1886. 

 Your Pro -ess works well. I am thoroughly 

 satisfied. Many point? in your method are 

 superior to all others. L. B. Hartzell. 



Albany. N. Y., Oct. 16, 1886. 

 Dear Sir:-I have mounted birds for over 

 thirty years, but have never known simplicity 

 and the perfect arrangement of the legs and 

 wings until I purchased and tried your Method. 

 My boy, whom I have been teaching the old 

 style of stuffing for over two years and without 

 success, succeeded admirably with your pro- 

 cess the first attempt. I am delighted with it. 



B. J. Ilinchman. 



Medina. O., Aug. 7, 1887. 

 Dear Sir: -Your Process has proven a suc- 

 cess in every way. E. W. Martin. 



Dear Sir:— The Process is a great success and 

 gives me much pleasure. My littl" girl can 

 mount birds in a life-like manner after two 

 weeks practice, much to her delight. She is 

 eleven years old. My boy of fourteen succeed- 

 ed at the first attempt. Your method of shap- 

 ing the body and wings is superior to all others. 

 Sept, 13, 1887. Mrs. H. B. Johnson 



Coatsville, Peuna., April 22. 1888. 

 Dear Sir:— Yours of the 13th inst at hand and 

 in reply I would say that the Compound is O. 

 K. and has done more for me than you claim it 

 will do. I do all of my custom taxidermy work 

 by your process. The first two objects that I 

 attempted were a Wood Duck and a Raccoon. 

 It is now over three months and they are as 

 natural as life. Yours Truly, Win. D. Doane. 



June 13, 18?9. 



Dr. M. Gil ibs. 



Dear Sir:— I now fully understand your Pro- 

 cess of Embalming.and can honestly pronounce 

 it a success in every way. My first trial was 

 satisfactory. The process is easily learned, 

 and specimens can be mounted by your way in 

 one-fourth the time required by the old method 

 of stuffing; the specimens retaining their form 

 much better also. Yours truly. 



E. E. Shailer, Tylervllle, Conn, 



Allegan Mich . April 27. 18S8. 

 Dear Sir:— The instructions and Embalming 

 Process received. My son is making rapid 

 progress for one so young. Is filling the house 

 with mounted specimens? D. F. Stucli. M. D. 



May 111, 18a8. 

 The undersigned as] a taxidermist for more 

 than forty years according to the several trad- 

 itional methods for mounting birds and mam- 

 mals, had his attention, in the autumn of '87. 

 drawn by an advertisement to Gibbs' ••Embalm- 

 ing Process." A sojourn of about four months 

 in Southern Florida has given me the leisure 

 to mount about three dozen birds of different 

 sizes with most gratifying results, especially 

 the immediate and perfectly natural adjust- 

 ment of the wings, legs and tail, as no other 

 method of the many I have studied secures. 

 Thus far my experience leads me to an un- 

 qualified recommendation of the "Process." 



J. W. P. Jenks. 

 Professor of Agricultural Zoology, and Curator 

 of the Museum of Brown University, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. 



[Later: Professor Jenks mounted over one 

 hundred birds by this Process, and could not 

 sa> encugh in pi il : . :>f the system. Birds the 

 size of Pelicans and Cormorants were success- 

 fully preserved ] 



Baltimore, Md., March 24, 189.). 



Dr. M. Gibbs. 



Dear Sir:— I have tried the Embalming Pro- 

 cess bought of you, and find it remarkably sat- 

 isfactory. Yours Sincerely, 



Stephen P. Harwood. 



Chicago. Ills.. May 16, 1888. 

 Dear Sir:— Have partially prepared birds by 

 your Process and allowed to lie a week before 

 tinishing. I can in two minutes prepare a bird 

 so it will last, or I can mount a small bird per- 

 fectly in thirty minutes. George Pratt. 



August 13, 1891. 



Dr. Morris Gibbs: — 



Dear Sir:— I send the following unsolicited 

 testimonial regarding your justly celebrated 

 Process of Embalming. I purchased over two 

 years ago and alter a thorough trial pronounce 

 it perfection, and far superior to all others. * 

 Charles F. Johnson, Kansas City, Mo. 



Knoxville, Tenn.. April 27, 1895. 

 Dear Sir:— I cheerfully recommend your 

 Process of Embalming; especially for begin- 

 ners, as it simplifies the delicate work with 

 small birds. The attitudes can also be. made 

 much truer to nature than toy the other meth- 

 ods commonly used toy taxidermists. 

 Very Truly Yours, S. A. Ogden. Taxidermist. 



Kinloch. Mo.. April 18, 1895. 

 Dear Sir:— The Embalming Process bought 

 of you gave perfect satisfaction iu every case. 

 I much prefi c it to the old method. 



'Morris Rice. 



Shreveport, La., April 21. 1895. 

 Dear Sir : - I have had better success with 

 your Process than I ever dreamed of. I never 

 laid eyes on a first class specimen before I ob- 

 tained your Method. Eugene Harding. 



Thayer, Mo., April 22, 1895. 

 Dear Sir:— I have tested your Process of Em- 

 balming as applied to the smaller birds, and 

 find it a decided improvement over the old 

 method of taxidermy. I have had no troutole 

 from shrinkage and find that I can get a more 

 life-like specimen with far less work than form- 

 erly. I shall recommend your process with 

 confidence and pleasure. Yours Very Truly, 



C. D. Field. 



Private-instruction in mounting costs from $io to $50 and a first class work on Taxidermy costs 

 $5 to $10. 



You can learn a method which costs next to nothing; simple, durable and requires no tools 

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Send 75 cents for complete instructions and one pound of compound ready for use; enough for 30 

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MORRIS GIBBS, M. D., Kalamazoo, Mich. 

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