page_title: Van Ingen & Van Ingen
section_title: Van Ingen & Van Ingen today
hierarchical_section_title: Van Ingen & Van Ingen / Van Ingen & Van Ingen today
caption_attribution_description: Label of a Van Ingen taxidermy mount (leopard).
context_page_description: Van Ingen & Van Ingen, simply Van Ingen, or Van Ingen of Mysore were Indian taxidermists located in Mysore, South India, best known for their tiger and leopard taxidermy trophy mounts. A History of Taxidermy. Art, science and bad taste states that Van Ingen factory processed more than 43,000 tiger and leopard trophies in less than 90 years of operation. Van Ingen & Van Ingen taxidermy today are still found throughout the world in the form of head mounts, full mounts, flat animal rugs, and rug mounts with heads attached.
  The Van Ingen & Van Ingen firm was established by Eugene Van Ingen in the 1890s. His sons later ran the business until it closed in 1999.
  Van Ingen & Van Ingen served the highest in international nobility as well as the Maharajas of India, preserving their "shikar" hunting trophies in the most lifelike poses and in the utmost beauty, with attention to detail like no other in their time of operation.
context_section_description: Today, Van Ingen taxidermy mounts are found in private collections and museums  throughout the world. Some can be found in auction houses throughout Britain at times finding fetching high prices.
  Today there is little to no information regarding possibly one of the greatest taxidermy firms in the world, apart from P.A. Morris' studies. The Van Ingen factory in Mysore, India lies derelict overgrown by the local jungle. The last member of the Van Ingens family Edwin Joubert Van Ingen (born 27 July 1912) died on 12 Mar 2013 in his Mysore residence. He was 101 years old.
  A 160 million-year-old fossil of a sauropod, and stuffed animals by Van Ingen & Van Ingen, were part of the museum collection that was destroyed in the April 2016 fire at the National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi.
caption: Label of a Van Ingen mount
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